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1. Mineral Name Crystal Size r Distribution r Twinning Quartz avg 2 008 mm Tsolated Growth 58 0 max 6 508 Alee common Change Mi eral Name min 1 888 r Crystal Habit r Zoning __ Color Cleavage Euhedral weak thin rim 4 J colorless faint r Overgrowths Grain Shape equidimensional inequidimensional irregular Anatase 4 spherical tabular prismatic skeletal equant lamellar acicular dendritic 2 Add Mineral cubic bladed fibrous embayed polyhedral platy needle Jagged m intergrowths octahedral flaky semi rounded spongy rounded columnar elongate amoeboid globular bleb 4 Add Mineral amp Other other crystal shape SSE Inclusions Comments Mineral comments i 4 Add Mineral gt J The proportion and range may be changed directly in the box at the upper left and you may change the name of the mineral by clicking the Change Mineral Name button which will bring up the Mineral Selection Dialog as described pre viously Adding minerals to any of the overgrowth intergrowth or inclusion lists will also bring up the Mineral Selection Dialog 115 Texture Fabric Dialo
2. Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Ichnofossils Fossils Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Grain Size Texture Porosity Sorting Roundness Rock Color Hydrocarbon Indica Hard Rock Structur Facies Environmen Stratigraphy Post depositional F b t 36B Remarks e Label Ge Fhoto ea Sample 3s Depth Marker Thin Section 72 E Hard Rock Structures To log Hard Rock Structures choose the desired item from the pop up menu Display the pop up menu by clicking in the box displaying the current selection and holding down the mouse button Select the desired porosity by re leasing the mouse button over the item The selected item now becomes the current item You can log the item as spot data by clicking once in the core schematic at the desired depth Or you can record the item as an interval by dragging over the de sired interval or dou CORE 1 SECTION 1 120 12 top 128 8 m uphole base 125 68 m downhole v i Joint Fault Slickensides Brittle Shear Zone Ductile Shear Zone E Foliation KA Disjunctive Cleavage kaj Crenulation Cleavage Fold Slump Fold Crystal Plastic Fabric 4 Crystal Mineral Lineation ES Magmatic fabric S Compositional Textural Variation FS Compositional Layering Igneous Contact Sedimentary Bedding
3. Up to eight sets of data can be imported into AppleCORE and any two of the eight sets can be chosen to plot as a curve in each of the four tracks by selecting from the pop up menu Dimmed items are not available A bullet indicates that the data is already chosen for plotting in one of the tracks but can be chosen again if not dimmed You can t plot the same data set twice in the same track unless you import it twice as different data sets The title is assigned when the data is imported but you can change the title here as well by editing the title box You may wish to completely capitalise the ti tle to match the other captions on the strip log header The scale can be assigned or you can choose to simply use the full range of the data Choose Logarithmic Plot if required This may change the scale range if it is inappropriate i e negative numbers and 0 0 are not permitted in a logarithmic scale A message will appear if an inappropriate scale is present The scale can be set to increase towards the left or right This allows you reverse the curve if desired The number of decimals in the scale caption can also be assigned Use 0 decimals for a scale of simple whole numbers but if the data range is small you may wish to dis play one or more decimal digits Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format 95 Click Ot
4. Applecone v6 75 1H aa ae AppleCORE v8 7 5 In the Get Info window you can also assign Shan CEN j AppleCORE s memory requirements Select Kind application program Memory Requirements Show Memory The default preferred size is eee 3000K 3 megabytes This should be adequate ene ai i for most work But if you get a message that memory is low when running AppleCORE you can assign more memory by increasing the pre ferred size to for instance 4000K You can only make changes in the Get Info window when Locked AppleCORE is not running Once you are comfortable using the mouse you will probably want to set the mouse tracking to the fastest available i e a minimum movement of the mouse results in the maximum movement of the cursor on the screen Set this in the Mouse control in the Control Panel under the menu If your Macintosh supports colour the lithology palettes and the core schematic will be displayed in colour Colour causes the lithologies to stand out and adds another dimension to the logging process making it even more intuitive Set your system colours from the Monitors control Choose Control Panels from the menu in the menu bar AppleCORE displays colour best with your monitor con figured for 8 bit colour or better To get this choose 256 colours or greater from the Monitors dialog If the shale lithologi
5. Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format 91 port Options allows you to correct this by entering a pixel offset for plotting rotat ed text Positive offsets move the text to the right and negative offsets move the text to the left One pixel is generally 1 72 of an inch Colour To draft the log in colour click on the Colour Options button Select Col our Plot or Black and White Plot To print in colour the log must first be COLOUR drafted in colour even if you only have a monochrome monitor Colour Plot Black amp White Plot AppleCORE has options for several Default Colour System different colour schemes to accommodate Use PICTI Colours low resolution Use PICT Colour Patterns Epson QuickDraw different printers Most printers can han dle all of the colour schemes However if concer Ca plots try printing with PICT 2 patterns you experience difficulty printing colour Some Epson printers do not recognise AppleCORE s default colour commands unless you have installed the Epson PostScript option If you experience problems printing colour with an Epson printer click on Epson QuickDraw Most oth er printers will also accept Epson QuickDraw commands If you have trouble open ing AppleCORE PICT files with your graphics program you may also try creating PICT files usin
6. Comments Point Count Total Points ja Point Interval 6 666 mm it into position at the proper depth in the schematic the Description Dialog win dow opens and you may proceed as with the Hard Rock description Once the dialog windows are all closed the presence of a Thin Section description is indicated by the Microscope icon You may click on the icon at any time to re open the Description Dialog window Thin Section Microscopic Structures The Thin Section Description dialogs are r Ribbon Grains gt Cataclastic Zone almost identical to the Hard Rock Descrip a Thickness 6 835 mm tion dialogs The only exception is that the 6 1 8 1 A Gouge 1 m B 1mm top level Description Dialog window does Preferred Crystal Orientation i a yl contain several extra items such as Micro Protomylonite scopic Structures and fields to record Point BA Add Mineral cancer __oK_ Count data and a Sample ID 123
7. mouse over an interval Selected Rudists undifferentiated the Legend in schematic AppleCORE will keep Scale bar Core box Interval Alternate palette button s A merval track of the scaled depth updating it continu ously This allows you to accurately place the graphic elements A customisable scale bar next to the schematic may also be used to place the graphic elements This is useful when it is configured with divisions similar to a full scale rule placed next to the actual core box Most of the patterns and icons are those in common use and should be familiar to all sedimentologists But all graphic items can also be cus tomised if you prefer and you can create your own if the basic standard set is not sufficient If you find that too many icons are cluttering up the schematic column mak 14 ing it difficult to place new items you can temporarily hide all icons except those from the active menu by holding down the option key on the keyboard As you log the data into the schematic you are creating a graphic image of the core However you are also building up a numeric file of all the data items as you log them and it is this data that is saved when you save a file The graphic image that appears as the schematic is only the human interface that AppleCORE recre ates every time a file is created or opened You will come across a several graphic inter fod LIMESTONE me face elements repeatedly w
8. Import External Y Data Import Digital Image Page Setup 30 the strip log The cursor will change to a double direction arrow when posi tioned over a column boundary that can be adjusted Click and drag the column margin to the desired width A column width is adjusted from its right hand mar gin If a log printout has part of its graphic truncated and lost at page edges this is a sign that AppleCORE is using a page size that is incorrect for that printer To cure this simply open and close the Page Setup dialog Then redraft the strip log and try printing again This procedure applies to all Macintosh applications The Page Setup dialog may have an Options button Any of the options may be specified however HP LaserJet Options 5i Cor Visual Effects Precision Bitmap Align Flip Horizontal Flip Vertical rte J Invert mage ment will reduce your image Printer Options Mf Substitute Fonts MA Smooth Text A Smooth Graphics Precision Bitmap Alignment Larger Print Area Fewer Downloadable Fonts Unlimited Downloadable Fonts in a Document by 4 thereby changing the scale that was specified for your drafted strip log Also choos ing Larger Print Area has been known to make manual paper feeding difficult possibly causing a paper jam alert The Page Setup dialog for the dot matrix Apple
9. Fat Bits window ing the data However see the note below about changing the meaning of the icons The pre view window shows the icon in Title editing box herringbone actual size Give the icon a title cross stratification Caption Sort Code n and if required a sort code by editing box Sort Code typing in the text editing boxes REUERT Cancel Revert will erase all your chang es and make the icon and title the same as it was when the edit dialog was opened OK will save your changes and close the dialog box Cancel will close the dialog box without saving any of your changes Pore Types Hydrocarbon Indicators and Core Condition Pore Types Hydrocarbon Indicators and Core Condition are also re corded as icons But because there are far fewer possibilities these items are se lected from a pop up menu rather than from a palette All of these icon items are Special Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Col Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v futoSave fAutoSave Preferen 45 customizable in exactly the same way as the other icon items from the Master List Rather than loading them to a
10. Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 40 Editing Lithologies To customise or create a lithology first click on a lithology button in one of the lithology palettes Each palette can display 16 lithologies and by clicking the page buttons 1 in the lower left of the palette window you can display an additional 3 palettes of 16 lithologies each Then choose Edit Selected Lith ology from the Special Menu This will bring up a dialog window that will al low you to create a lithology pattern and to give it a title and background colour for plotting To edit the pattern click Fat Bits window Preview window squares on or off in the 8x8 fat bits window The preview PAN E window shows the tiled pattern Bentonite Ash beds in actual size Give the litholo gy a title in the text editing box ASCII Code 1286 0K CANCEL Choose Background Color Revert will erase all your changes and restore the pattern and title to what it was when the edit dialog was opened OK will save your changes and close the dialog box Cancel will close the dialog box without saving any of
11. Erase Erase pom oa owson array CORE 1 BOR 1 top 1476 eqft uphoie base 1481 66 ft Slightly Fractured m intensity 1478 58 feet Logging Clastic Lithology 61 Carbonate Lithology Sedimentary Struct 3Y Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils El Fossils F Grain Size Texture 36 Porosity K Hydrocarbon Indica 36H Sorting Roundness Rock Color R Hard Rock S tructur Post depositional F Facies Environment 3B Stratigraphy Remarks 3E E Label Ge Photo de Sample 34s Depth Marker g Thin Section 75 also record the symbol as point data with a sin gle click on the schematic Oriented Core Intervals of oriented core may be flagged from the Core Condition menu Select the gf icon item and record it on the core schematic in the usual manner either as point data or inter val data The Oriented Core flag can be option ally plotted on the strip log in its own column Moderately Disturbed Slightly Disturbed Very Disturbed Soupy Slightly Fractured Moderately Fractured Highly Fractured Drilling Breccia v Oriented Core l 1 o o o a a x x KEK Logging Clastic Lithology 1 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct 3Y Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofossils
12. 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Hard Rock Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Fossils Porosity Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness Rock Color Hard Rock Structur 1 2 3 Y A l F Grain Size Texture 36 K H T R M Post depositional F b Facies Environment B Stratigraphy Remarks E Ee Label E Fhoto RK Sample H Depth Marker Thin Section 64 Logging with Graphic Icons Most physical and biogenic properties are logged in AppleCORE from palettes of graphic symbols or icons These include Physical Structures Lithologic Accessories Ichnofossils Fossils Diagenesis and Fractures Diagenesis and Fractures lie in a submenu under Post depositional Features Pore Types and Hydrocarbon Indicators also use graphic icons but their windows are somewhat different and are discussed in a separate section Each of these groups is displayed in a window from which you have access to two palettes of items Toggle between the two palettes by clicking the alternate gt button These two palettes contain spaces for a total of 96 items 60 for ichnofos CORE 1 BOH 1 1486 25 feet top 1476 ee ft _ a8 base 1461 66 ft downhole Selected Current Ripples Legend Oscillatory Ripples
13. Post depositional F 36H Hard Rock Structur t 36B Remarks Ele Label Ge Fhoto ea Sample 3s Depth Marker Thin Section 73 E clicking on its icon in the schematic Logging To erase a hard rock structure click its icon while holding down the COM Clastic Lithology 1 MAND key 88 You will receive a warning when you attempt to erase because Carbonate Lithology 32 Sedimentary Struct 3Y there may be considerable data attached to the item Once a structure icon is placed Lithologic nh aia oe sy Ichnofossils l in the schematic you can also move it by dragging it to a new position while hold fossils iT ing down the SHIFT key If the icon lies within an arrowhead interval you can E Tae a orosity only drag the symbol within the limits of the arrowheads Hydrocarbon Indica 8H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color R Hard Rock Structur 3M Post depositional F b Facies Environment B Stratigraphy Remarks E Ele Label Ge Fhoto se Sample 4 Depth Marker Thin Section 74 Post depositional Features Selecting Post depositional Features from the Logging menu brings up a submenu with a choice of four palettes Diagenesis Frac tures Lithification and Core Condition Diagenesis and Fractures Diagenesis Fractures Lithification Core Disturbance Thes
14. The strip log must be drafted before you print The Print command under the File menu will be dimmed until the log is drafted To print in color the log must QuickStart be drafted in color and color must be chosen in the Print dialog Ifthe drafted strip log is saved as a PICT file choose under the Drafting menu the graphic image can then be opened by many graphic and drafting programs such as Canvas or MacDraw Pro for further enhancement IF YOUR SYSTEM CRASHES while AppleCORE is open you have a good chance of recovering most of your work if you have left AutoSave turned on under the Special menu Restart your computer and look immediately in the Trash There should be a folder there entitled Rescued Items which will contain the last file you worked on Its title will be Recovered followed by the name of the file or Untitled The interval between backups can be set by selecting AutoSave Preferences under the Special menu An ap plication may crash by quitting unexpectedly but otherwise still leave the system running If this happens while running AppleCORE you can recover your file only by restarting the Mac choose Restart from the Special menu of the system menu bar After the restart check the trash for your file The Windows AppleCORE uses four main windows for the collection and display of data The Log Header and the Data Entry windows are used for data ent
15. Boxes are added to and deleted from the base of a core so that for instance reducing the number of boxes in a core from 5 to 3 will destroy boxes 5 and 4 A warning is displayed before you are permitted to delete boxes The Box Depths Dialog The Box Depths button BOH DEPTHS Depth Top of Box CORE BOH 1__ opens another dialog window E TT TTS that prompts the user to enter Fy Automatic Dept increments the depth of the top and base for each box The unit of measure Text Entry Boxes feet or meters must be that se lected in the Log Header window Once the top depth and the base depth of the first box are entered selecting downhole will display the next box in sequence and the top depth is automatically recorded as the base of the previous box This depth may be changed if there is a gap in the core recovery Depths may increase up wards or downwards and negative numbers will be accepted Any depths that are not entered are recorded as 0 0 This will not prevent the user from recording 11 and saving lithologic data however the strip log cannot be drafted until all the depths are entered After the depths are entered for each box there is normally little need for the user to be further concerned with these depths while logging the core Entering the depths accurately is anecessary and important step since the strip log is draft ed and scaled based on these data Any error in these depths wi
16. Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format 94 XY Plots If you have imported numeric data to plot as a graph on the strip log display it on the strip log by clicking on the buttons shown here FAHY Track 1 You can plot and format any or all of the four tracks a 4 H Track 2 track is a column on the strip log even if you choose not 4 R Track 3 to graph any of the data sets in a track LA HY Track 4 Clicking Options will bring up a series of dialogs that allows you to format the tracks in many different configurations The Options button brings up a set of TRACK 1 Curve 1 Data Set 1 Curve 2 Data Set 2 Title GAMMA RAY Title Porosity Analysis r Scale Range Use Full Data Range From 8 io 158 C Logarithmic Plot r Scale Orientation Increasing Left Increasing Right r Scale Range Use Full Data Range From 8 io 48 O Logarithmic Plot r Scale Orientation Increasing Left Increasing Right three windows for each track Toggle sequentially through the three by clicking Other Options The windows contain twin con trols one for each of the two curves that can be plotted in the track Scale Decimals 8 Other HY options CANCEL Cox Scale Decimals 8
17. E Lamination Color Bedding Paleocurrent Direction Mineral Vein Magmatic Vein FA Clastic Vein Dike BASE bling clicking in a lithology interval In an interval the icon is placed between two arrowheads If you drag over an interval to record the data the icon is centered between the arrowheads However if you double click in an interval the icon is plotted where the cursor was clicked and not necessarily in the middle of the in terval between the arrow heads This allows you to place the icons to avoid over lap When you record a Hard Rock Structure a dialog window will automatically open allowing the user to record additional data about the feature There are three classes of hard rock structure 1 Faults Joints and associated structures 2 Tex tural features and 3 Veins and Dikes Each class brings up a somewhat differ ent data dialog window depending on what is relevant to that structure class Joint A Orientation r Joint Type Comments orthogonal sets Once the feature has been recorded you may re open the dialog window by Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology 1 2 Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Fossils EY A Grain Size Texture Porosity Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness Rock Color Facies Environmen Stratigraphy
18. Each item under these headings is then described in the vertical order in which they appear when the menu is pulled down The pulled down menu is displayed at the top edge of each page with the described item inverted Thus you can quickly find information on any item in a particular menu by flipping through the pages of the manual while keeping your eye on the upper edge of the pages The appendix volume contains important information on the internal code num bers that AppleCORE uses for its data These code numbers are used when the data are downloaded as an ASCII file If you require use of the exported ASCII file its format is also described in detail in the Appendix Installing AppleCORE There is no copy protection on AppleCORE To install it on a hard drive sim ply drag it from the floppy disk or CD to your hard drive icon AppleCORE may be compressed To decompress double click on the hard drive version and follow the instructions Keep the original disk as your backup copy Make sure AppleCORE is unlocked before using otherwise any new icons or lithology patterns that you create will not be saved you will get a warning To check if it is locked quit AppleCORE and select it by clicking once on its icon Then from the File item in the system menu bar select Get Info The lock button is in the lower left of this window You can toggle it on or off by clicking on it Make sure it is off
19. Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil AutoSave AutoSave Preferen 56 AutoSave Preferences Selecting AutoSave Preferences from the Special menu brings up a dialog window that allows you make some fAuto Save Preferences choices regarding the AutoSave function Save every 5 minutes The default backup interval is 5 minutes Give notice On amp ark inen saving but you can set this to anything you wish Be aware however that you are making a deci sion concerning the amount of data you are OK Cancel prepared to lose should your Macintosh sys tem crash or lose power Although this does not happen often it will sooner or later and if you have AutoSave turned on the maximum work you stand to lose will be that performed since the last AutoSave backup The only drawback to set ting a short backup interval is that you may find annoying the slight periodic de lay while AppleCORE saves the data In most cases this should not be more than a few seconds Every time AutoSave backs up your data it will display a small window on your screen that simply says AutoSaving You can turn off the display of this notice by clicking off the button Give notice when saving You can also turn AutoSave on or off from this dialog Turning Aut
20. If the tt only use equally spaced reference lines representing for il rie column width is too narrow the logarithmic plot will I E min max example 0 1 1 10 100 1000 etc To apply the same track width to all the other XY columns on the strip log click the Apply Width to all Tracks button Cumulative Plots AppleCORE can also produce cumulative plots For example if a set of components sums to 100 you may wish to plot them in a single track as a cu mulative bar graph that shows the relative propor tions of each Each component must be imported as a separate data set and therefore a maximum of eight components may be plotted in a cumulative plot Any of the formats bar graph or line graph can be used for a cumulative plot It is not necessary that the data sum to 100 or any other value You should be careful to ensure that the depths match across each set of data that is to be cumulated however AppleCORE will reconcile any missing values as signing them as 0 If you choose to display a cumu lative plot in one of the four XY tracks you cannot plot a second curve in that track To draft a cumulative plot on the strip log first import each component as an XY data set See the sec tion Importing X Y Data Then format the plot as follows In the XY Options dialog select Cumula tive Plot which appears at the bottom of the pop up menu of curve data sets If Cumulative Plot is a
21. Open Format Save Format 103 vas Choose Convert to paint Object and select 8 bit colour Depth and 72 DPI This converts the image into a single graphic object that is a bitmapped im age You can no longer change individual elements of the image such as fonts and line widths etc you can only manipulate individual dots in the image similar to a Photoshop document After closing the Group Specs dialog window the conversion will take place Then select the resulting single object by clicking on it You can now save it as a TIFF image under the Save As menu item Choose TIFF from the file format menu Note that the first version of Canvas 5 has nu merous bugs when opening PICT files and will not open AppleCORE PICT files properly Use version 5 03 or later The shareware program GraphicConverter not associated with the AppleCORE software may also be useful for transferring AppleCORE PICT files into other formats and has been used successfully for porting the strip log graph ic to the Windows platform GraphicConverter is available at http www lemkesoft de us_gcdownload html Show Page Breaks Drafting Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Open Format Save Format 104 Page Breaks To display the page breaks on the strip log window select Show Page Breaks from the Drafting menu Any internal page breaks will be displayed as red lines P
22. Porosity Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness Rock Color Hard Rock Structur 1 2 3 Y A l F Grain Size Texture 36 K H T R M Post depositional F b Facies Environment 3B Stratigraphy Remarks Ee Label E Fhoto RK Sample H Depth Marker Thin Section 62 Facies Contacts A horizontal line will appear at the top and bottom of each lithology interval signalling a facies change A facies contact is always assumed to exist at these breaks even if the lithology has not changed The only exception is that the top and bot tom end of each column schematic are not recognized as facies contacts unless the lithology changes in the succeeding column schematic or if a contact is deliberate ly clicked in place Therefore if a lithology break is mistakenly recorded in an in terval that is actually a single lithofacies interval you can re log the lithology to eliminate the break by dragging over the entire interval from top to base To log a facies contact turn on the Facies Contact button This will turn off all other radio buttons in the window The type of facies contact is selected from the Facies Contact pop up menu To see the pop up menu click on the box in which the current facies contact is listed and hold down the mouse button Se Sharp lect the contact by releasing the mouse button over the item Scoured The se
23. Thin Section 69 can choose to log visual Stain or Hydrocar bon Indicator by click CORE 1 BOH 1 1480 28 feet top 1476 80 ft gener base 1481 90 ft Gownnote HYDROCARBON INDICATOR ing on their respective oil stain Abundance Common x1 wmo s oeew radio buttons To log stain choose the desired degree SSTA IN of stain from the pop up menu and record it in the gray scale column Note that in this window both the visual porosity and stain columns are present Since the amount of stain is of ten related to the amount of porosity having both columns displayed allows you to place possible boundaries accurately relative to each other For a Hydrocarbon Indicator choose the desired symbol from the pop up menu and you may also choose a level of abundance Record it by dragging or double clicking as you would any of the other graphic icons See the section Logging with Graphic Icons Note that the pop up menu of items for both the Pore Types and Hydrocarbon Indicator is easily and fully customisable You can change the icons and create new ones by editing a Master list under the Options menu You can choose items from the Master list for inclusion in the pop up menu and change their order in the menu to suit your preferences For instruction on how to accomplis
24. down the Shift key See Modifying the Column Order and Column Widths Clicking the Remarks Options button opens a dialog window that provides more options for configuring Remarks Options Font Helvetica Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format Size the Remarks column on the strip log You may change the font and point size from the default 9 pt Helvetica Note O Delete Depth Reference Lines O Include Rock Name in Remarks Column that asmall point size may be difficult to read on the computer screen but will print quite clearly on most printers By default all remarks include a ref Sir GNE erence line to indicate the exact depth ee ey ERS SILTY SHALE at which the remark Was recorded This carbonate nodules from 0 1 to 1 cm diameter reverse graded from silty clay to clayey silt SILT SILTSTONE may be turned off in the Remarks Op tabular elongate reduction halos roots to 20 cm tions dialog However if there are nu tabular and equant reduction halos to 1 x 6 cm merous long remarks in the log they will be plotted displaced downward from their actual recorded depth position and could cause confusion when the strip log is displayed without reference lines Facies Environment and Stratigraphy The Options buttons for these items bring up a dialog that allows you plot all or some of the four F
25. open the application first Then select Open from the File menu The name of the PICT file should show up in the scrolling list of files You may have to specify that it recognize PICT file formats You also may be able to simply drag and drop the PICT file over the application s icon to open it Everything in the strip log image is a graphic object that can be manipulated independently in a graphics program If you have trouble opening AppleCORE PICT files with your graphics pro gram you may also try creating PICT files using one of the different colour schemes available in this dialog window NOTE It is also possible to save the plot as a PostScript graphic file For im port to Freedom of Press for example For instructions on how to do this see the section Printing You can also produce TIFF format and possibly other formats files if you have the Canvas graphics Group Specifications Unit AAO program To do this follow these instruc tions From AppleCORE draft the log and then save as a PICT file Open the PICT file using Canvas Select All in Number Of Objects 588 Height 16 958 Width Top 0 014 Left 0 028 6 250 Bi Convert To Paint Object Canvas to select every graphic element in the strip log Then choose Group Specs from the Object menu in Can Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Sh
26. sils and you can load these in any configuration you wish from a master list of up to 300 items that resides in the background See the section on Editing Icons for more information on loading the palettes As you move the cursor over the palette each item s caption will appear dynamically in the Legend space To log an item choose it from the palette by clicking on its icon The selected item will invert to white on black and its title will show up in the Selected space You can also choose its relative abundance from the abundance pop up menu at the upper right above the palette To see the pop up menu click on the box in Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofassils 361 Fossils F Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity eK Hydrocarbon Indica H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color eR Hard Rock Structur 4M Post depositional F b Facies Environment 8 Stratigraphy Remarks E Eel Label Ga Photo se Sample H Depth Marker Thin Section 65 which the current abundance is shown and hold down the mouse button Select the desired abundance by releasing the mouse button over the item The selected item now becomes the current abundance You can log the item as spot data by clicking once in the core schematic at the desired depth Pervasive Abundant Or you can record the item as an inter
27. Configuration changes some of the terminol ogy used in AppleCORE to reflect offshore drilling procedures specific to recov ery of research oriented cores For example all references to core boxes are changed to core sections ODP Configuration also changes the appearance of the Header Dialog Window The header remarks are no longer accessible to the user and are hidden There is no other functional change to AppleCORE under ODP Configuration and the data files are identical whether this switch is turned on or not If you are collecting Hard Rock data AppleCORE allows you to describe the lithology in great detail by bringing up a Hard Rock Description Dialog Imme diately after you drag over an interval to record a hard rock lithology the Hard Rock Description Dialog will open automatically You may also switch OFF the automatic display of the Hard Rock Description Dialog Click the switch with the caption Bring up Hard Rock dialogs automatically while logging If you turn this switch off you can record hard rock intervals without having the description dialog window flash open every time When you are ready to do the detailed rock description hold down the keyboard CONTROL button while click ing in the lithology interval This will bring up the Hard Rock Description Dialog for that interval When you hold down the Control button the screen cursor will change to an eyedropper A indicating the data recovery function
28. ImageWriter is shown here The preset option in north ImageWriter 70 ox Paper US Letter O A4 Letter i i i i US Legal O International Fanfold America is vertically oriented Computer Paper Orientation Special Effects Tall Adjusted 3 50 Reduction Fii EA No Gaps Between Pages U S letter size Normally you will also want to click on Tall Adjusted as this will remove distortion of the image due to the fact that the ImageWriter prints a different res olution vertically than it does horizontally This does not affect the vertical scale of the log Selecting No Gaps Between Pages will print a continuous strip log an advantage over the LaserWriter which prints pages only Remember that selecting 50 reduction will affect the scale ratio that was used to draft the strip log Other types of printers may have Page Setup dialogs that appear different from those shown here AppleCORE and all Macintosh applications function in dependently from the printer installed on your system A piece of software called the Printer Driver which is in Extensions in your system folder provides the New Log Open Log 0 Close Log W Save BS Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External Y Data Import Digital Image Page Setup 31 link to a specific printer It is the
29. POROSITY radio button Choose porosity percent from E PoRosITY 3 1 ie BASE the pop up menu in gradations of 3 or enter any value between 0 and 99 in the text edit box Then record the data in the usual way by dragging or double click ing in an interval on the schematic You can record Porosity or Visual Porosity over an interval but not both To record Pore Types choose the desired type from the pop up menu You can also choose to record a level of abundance by selecting from the abundance pop up window Log the Pore Type by dragging over the desired interval or double clicking in a lithology interval Intervals are displayed in the same manner as the other icon data with the icon plotted between a pair of arrowheads The line joining the arrowheads reflects the abundance by its thickness and pattern See the section Logging with Graphic Icons Hydrocarbon Indicators The Hydrocarbon Indicators window is similar to the Porosity window You Logging Clastic Lithology 61 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct 3Y Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofossils EI Fossils F Grain Size Texture Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness 2T Rock Color R Hard Rock Structur Post depositional F Facies Environment 3B Stratigraphy Remarks E E Label Ge Photo de Sample 34s Depth Marker
30. aid in recording data The image will ap pear in a separate window You may rotate the image clockwise or counterclock wise and scale it if desired You will require the QuickTime extension v 3 or higher in your system folder in order to view digital images AppleCORE supports the following image file formats PICT TIFF GIF JPEG JFIF BMP PNG Targa QuickTime Image MacPaint Photoshop v 2 5 and 3 0 and Silicon Graphics S E Image Rotate lt Rotate Cr 19 The Menu Descriptions To use the AppleCORE program boot the Macintosh using System version 7 or any later version To start the program click twice on the AppleCORE icon or select it by clicking once on the icon and choosing Open from the File menu Sev eral seconds are required while the program sets itself up During this time licensing information will appear and the busy wristwatch cursor will be displayed When the menus appear at the top of the screen the program is ready for use The licens ing information window will disappear at the first click of the mouse button Menu items are selected by holding the mouse button down while the arrow cursor is over the desired menu heading This pulls down all the items under that heading Release the mouse button over the desired item Disabled items are dimmed and cannot be selected because they are inappropriate choices Note that most menu items are dimmed immed
31. driver that produces the Page Setup dialog There are drivers available that provide for very large page sizes up to 48 by 36 inches This allows output to large printers such a Versatec colour printer if the strip log image is saved as a PostScript graphic file To create a PostScript file see the following section regarding printing Any changes you make to the Page Setup options are saved along with your data file When you open it again AppleCORE will attempt to use the specifica tions that were saved with the file but it can only do this if the printer that is cur rently chosen is the same type of printer that was chosen when the file was saved A different printer will cause the program to select default options New Log Open Log 0 Close Log wW Save BS Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External Data Import Digital Image Page Setup 32 Printing You cannot print until the strip log has been drafted and Print will be dimmed in the menu until then Once the strip log has been drafted select Print from the File menu A print dialog 42 Printer HP LaserJet 5P w Destination box will appear that is specific to the General Saar S N O NA ON repes printer you have chosen A LaserWrit P amp All ee a Fe er print dialog is shown here You may Paper Source All pages from Ca
32. edit boxes fill in the estimated percents of the listed prod uct minerals or indicate any other mineral percent AppleCORE will sum the totals automatically for each parent mineral as well as the overall total alteration Alteration Products Olivine ta r Plagioclase to Clinopyroxene to r Orthopyroxene ta secondary Talc i Plagioclase Hornblende 1 Tale a x Magnetite a l Epidote a Actinolite a cummingtonite a Amphibole a Prehnite 1 Oxide a Onide a Chiorite Actinolite Chlorite Chlorite smectite a js Chiorite Smectite ja e Smectite m j2 Smectite A Hematite a Calcite 8 k Pyrite ks Other 98 F Other a 3 Other 1 z Other i x TOTAL 1 TOTAL 1 other to Clinopyx TOTAL 2 other to orthopyx TOTAL 2 Comments Alteration Products comments Totals will automatically update based on user input Voids Description Dialog From the main Hard Rock Description Dialog there is a field that allows the description of voids in the lithology A pop up menu lists the common void types Selecting Other brings up a text edit box allowing a short free form description Click on the Notepad to bring up the detailed Voids Description Dialog You may record voids abundance size and shape as well as any secondary minerals th
33. for If the rock name in the data base is not specific or descriptive enough the user Rock Type Primary Mineralogy Igneous Phenocrysts Groundmass Metamorphic 50 Quartz trace Alkali Feldspar O Altered Z0 Alkali Feldspar it E M 20 Plagioclase Sulfide Sulfate Oxide soetan Crystallinity E Phaneritic fine grain BA Add Mineral PA Add Mineral Uoids Texture Fabric Open Fractures Lithology Name A Texture Non Fragmental BA Secondary Alteration None Fresh Data Base Name Rhyolite Logger Descriptive Name Dog s breakfast Comments General thology comments Non editable Lithology name determined by running the KEY Free form editable Lithology name may also record an optional free form Logger Descriptive Name on returning to the Hard Rock Description Dialog The lithology pattern on the strip log and the code that is assigned when the data is stored are determined by the Data Base Name but the Logger Descriptive Name allows the flexibility to assign a more detailed rock name or to use some more specialized terminology if desired If the Data Base Name determined from the automated Key is different from that originally used to record the lithology interval the original graphic lithology pattern will be changed on the interval schematic to that of the Data Base Name In this regard the user need not
34. increments of 25 Page Setup also has another critical function It tells AppleCORE the size of the printer page information that may be used to format the strip log If you change printers you should select Page Setup from the menu and then redraft the strip log Select Page Setup even if you do not wish to make any changes to the page orientation Simply open it and then close it again If the new printer has a differ ent page size AppleCORE will then prompt you to redraft the strip log It will not be necessary to call Page Setup again unless you wish to change page size or orientation Asa default AppleCORE tries to fit the width of the strip log on a single page It does this by adjusting the width of the remarks column However there are built in limits If the remarks column would be excessively wide only part of the page width is used If the column would be too narrow the image is extended laterally onto a second page and will have to be spliced To avoid splicing in such cases try changing the default page orientation from portrait Maal to landscape tE orientation You may also adjust the width of many but not all of the strip log columns in order to optimise the space on a printed page To change a column width hold the Shift key down and move the cursor into the column caption area at the top of New Log Open Log 0 Close Log wW Save 3S Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file
35. initially commit to a rock name when record ing a lithology interval If the rock type is initially uncertain or if you simply wish 121 to allow AppleCORE to determine the rock name record the interval as Undeter mined This provides an the entry point to the lithology description dialogs and CORE 1 SECTION 1 1235 84 meters top 128 88m uphole base 125 88 m downhole Facies Contact ERBEDDED Eee Basalt Ed Rhyolite Andesite feed O Trachyte EEH O Latite RSH Phonolite Hit C Tephrite aed Dunite Empty Box Space he Levee aa i Bedding RS Anorthosite Re Gabbro Norite Granite HH Syenite Hl diorite 2s O Lo ore O Granodiorite ra a Uqdetermined HEERES F PEE EEE ee ete Pe ee Attia deaeaa REP ePe eae aaa a a a a a a a a BASE The litholgy interval may initially be recorded as Undetermined AppleCORE s automated rock name determination key will suggest the rock type based on descriptive information provided by the user AppleCORE s auto mated Key will sug gest the rock type based on the descrip tive information pro vided by the user On running the Key AppleCORE will au tomatically assign the correct rock pattern and name to the inter val AppleCORE will also do this if the use
36. is the text that is recorded The scrolling menus provide a selection of prerecorded items Load any of these into the text edit box by clicking on the item And anything in the text edit box can be uploaded to the prerecorded list using the appropriate control buttons Allitems on the prerecorded lists of Facies and Depositional Environments can be colorised to make identification easier on the drafted strip log To colorise an item select it by clicking on it and then choose Colorise Selected Facies from the Special menu To record text remarks on the log choose Text from the Logging menu The cursor will change to a pencil when moved over the core schematic Click at the appropriate depth and a text editing window will appear When the win dow is closed an icon of a note pad will appear on the core schematic to indi cate the presence of the text item Click on this icon at any time to re display the text window Photo Sample and Label work ina similar way The strip log may be drafted up at any time as long as depths are recorded for all intervals The program will inform you of any discrepancies in the depths that may prevent the log being drafted To draft in colour turn on the color button in the Set up Format dialog under the Drafting menu The strip log format can be saved as a Format File and can then be Applied to other logs for example to replicate a complex format on a multi well project
37. it into position at the proper depth in the schematic a Description Dialog window opens and you may proceed as with the Hard Rock description Once the dialog windows are all closed the presence of a Thin Sec tion description is indicated by the Microscope icon You may click on the icon at any time to re open the Description Dialog window The Thin Section Description dialogs are almost identical to the Hard Rock De scription dialogs These allow very detailed lithology descriptions and are described in a separate section See the section Hard Rock Description Dialogs Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Sedimentary Struct 34 Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofossils 1 Fossils F Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity eR Hydrocarbon Indica 3H Sorting Roundness 3T Rock Color R Hard Rock Structur 3M Post depositional F gt Facies Environment B Stratigraphy Remarks E Ee Label Ge Photo Sample Depth Marker Thin Section 85 File Edit Special Logging Wee search Window The Drafting Menu Specifying the Strip Log Format The Set Up Format item brings up a large dialog window that permits the selection of numerous options for drafting the strip log Within this dialog each PLOT OPTIONS M Physical Struct M Porosity M Litho Accessories C Pore Types W Trace Fossils O Staining O Fossils M Hydrocarbon Show
38. l Fossils F Grain Size Texture G Porosity K Hydrocarbon Indica 3H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color R Hard Rock tructur 3M Post depositional F Facies Environment 3B Stratigraphy Remarks E Ea Label ce Photo at Sample 4 Depth Marker Thin Section 76 Facies and Depositional Environment A hierarchy of facies and interpretive remarks can be recorded by selecting Facies Environment from the Logging menu You can record short descrip tions max 31 characters of four items Facies Facies Association Depo sitional Environment and Depositional Complex These are plotted on the strip log in vertical columns Commonly used terms can be stored in a scrolling lists for repeated use Any of the terms stored in the lists can be assigned a back ground colour to plot in the strip log columns This allows dramatic visual em phasis of important facies or facies successions Scrolling list Scroll bar CORE 1 BOH 2 top 1512 70 Facies 1 Facies 2 Facies 3 Facies 4 Facies 5 acies 2 Facies 7Env Plot color List editing buttons Estuarine System Current text Depositional Complex Depositional Environment Facies Association gt Facies Text editing box Current Item The current text is whatever is in the text editing box When you log an in terval it is the current text that is recorded There are
39. menu click on the box in which the cur rent is shown and hold down the mouse button Select the by releasing the mouse button over the item The selected item now becomes the current You may also select the bedding thickness from a pop up menu that yotopserved Thick gt dm Medium cm dm displays the current bedding Now you can log the interval in the Thin lt cm regular way by dragging or double clicking Both lithologies will lt appear in the schematic column vertically divided in proportion to the inter bedded percent selected The bedding thickness is represented by one two or three vertical lines dividing the two lithologies indicating thick medi um or thin bedding respectively The core schematic shown here therefore represents medium bedded sandstone interbedded with 50 limestone The bedding is drafted on the strip log ina similar manner but only when Pro file is turned off in the Set up Format dialog of the Drafting menu and only if Bedding Vertical is also clicked on To turn off Interbedded logging click the INTERBEDDED button off The pri mary lithology will become the current selected lithology and the bedding thick ness and percent will become dimmed Lost Core An interval of lost core is logged in the same way as a lithology It has a specif ic thickness is included as part of the top and base depth interval of the core box and it shows up on the strip lo
40. no data is lost If there is not enough room to plot the data on the strip log AppleCORE first tries to split the text at a word break and plot it on two lines If there is still not enough room the text is truncated and 2 dots are placed at the end of the text to indicate the truncation If the scale you choose for the strip log is too small such truncations may be common The captions of the default categories Period Age Formation or Group may be changed to whatever the user desires In fact the user may wish to use this data window for non stratigraphic categories such as some specialised type of data To change a caption click on the Category Captions button This brings up a window containing four edit boxes in which any of the default categories may changed as desired In the example shown here Period and Age have been Mh A LLA EDIT CATEGORY CAPTIONS changed to Sequence and Para Parasequence Formation Revert to Default sequence respectively Revert to Default will bring back the original default captions Period and Age The new captions are saved with the data file and will also appear as the column headers Cancel OK on the drafted strip log Logging Clastic Lithology 361 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct Y Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofassils 361 Fossils HF Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity K Hydrocarbo
41. palette however you can load the pop up menus to contain as many of the items as you require in any order that you desire Because you can t double click on a pop up menu the way you can in a pal ette of items the only way to see the Master List is by selecting Edit Icon Mas ter List from the Special CAPTION PORE TYPES ASCII No Menu The Master List window interparticle Hor interparticle primary interparticle secondary intergranular intergranular orimary intergranular secondary intercrystal intercrystal primary intercrystal secondary primary porosity looks slightly different for Pore Types Hydrocarbon Indicators and Core Condition than for the other icon lists Two additional boxes appear in the window Remove an Item and In sert this Item Insert this Item changes to Al Pop up Menu Insert this itgn Edit Selection ready in Menu where appropriate Both of these boxes are pop up menus that display the current menu of items available in the logging window To remove an item from the current menu click the mouse cursor in the Re move an Item box Hold the mouse button down to display the pop up menu Notice that the cursor will change to oy while the menu is open If you select an item by releasing the mouse button with the cursor over the menu entry it will immediately be removed from the list If you
42. release the mouse button outside the menu nothing will be changed To insert an item from the Master list into the current pop up menu first select the desired item from the Master List by clicking on it If that item is already in the current pop up menu the Insert box will change to Item Already in Menu and you will not be able to bring up the menu Otherwise click on the Insert this Item box and hold the mouse button to display the current pop up menu The cursor will change to L while the menu is open Releasing the mouse button with the cursor over an entry in the menu will insert the item following that entry as the cursor indicates To insert the item before a menu entry hold down the Option key before bringing up the pop up menu In this case the cursor will change to 4 indicating that the item will be inserted before the selected menu entry If you re lease the mouse button outside the menu nothing will be changed Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Sh Facies Col Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 46 CAUTION The following important note is similar to that discussed in the previous sec tion on editing the lithologies but is repeated here for emphasis NOTE that the ASCII code is the constant that
43. show up along with all custom files in the scrolling list of files in the Open File dialog Simply choose the file you wish to install and proceed Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave AutoSave Preferen 52 To load a custom file into your copy of AppleCORE choose Install Cus tom File from the Special menu Before loading a custom file a notice warns that the existing configuration All of the current set of icons and lithology patterns will be permanently replaced when loading a custom file should be saved if necessary Save the current set of icons and lithology patterns if they do not already exist as a custom file or if you have Made changes to them The original icons and litholo gies are already saved as a cus Save As Custom File x tom file called Default Items Continue Without Saving Loading a custom file can take up to 2 minutes on an older Mac or 20 seconds on faster models If a log file is open it must be closed before you can install a custom file A dialog box will inform you of this and prompt you to close the file To save your custom configuration as a Custom file select Save as Cus tom F
44. text to fit on the screen On the raw ASCII file line returns are placed only at the end of the records New Log Open Log 0 Close Log sl Save 3S Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 27 Importing X Y Data AppleCORE can import lists of data for plotting as a line graph in a separate column on the strip log Such data should consist of a set of depth values and a variable to plot Examples are readings from a Gamma Ray log or perhaps poros ity measurements from a core analysis Eight different sets of data can be import ed for alog and can be plotted in any of four tracks with two curves per track and annotated with appropriate scales and titles The raw data should be in the form of an ASCII TEXT file where data fields are delimited by spaces and or tabs com mas are not acceptable Alphabetic characters blank lines and values of 99999 9 or less are read as null data fields and will cause a break in the plotted curve If there are non numeric data on any lines at the top of the file AppleCORE will skip those lines until it finds the first row of all numeric values All Macintosh and Windows spreadsheets and word processors can save data in ASCII format TEXT or txt format The raw data file can consist of any number of data columns and data rows When importing the data a dialog window will l
45. the Special menu with the caption Bring up Hard Rock dialogs automatically while logging If you turn this switch off you can record hard rock intervals without having the description dialog window flash open every time When you are ready to do the detailed rock description use the Control Click function to bring up the Hard Rock Description Dialog windows Mineral Component Lists AppleCORE uses Mineral Component Lists in 50 quartz 30 Alkali Feldspar 20 Flagioclase pile and describe the various mineral components trace Goethite several different dialogs to enable the user to com of a lithology The mineral list may or may not in A Add Mineral clude relative percent depending on the context Click Add Mineral to add a new mineral to the list This will immediately bring up the Mineral Selection Dialog To remove a mineral from the list click on it while holding down the Com 112 mand button 3 You will be warned before you can remove a mineral since there may be considerable data associated with it To change the name and or propor tion of the mineral but retain all of its associated descriptive data select it from the list and then click on the Notepad button or simply double click on the miner al name in the list This brings up the Mineral Description Dialog which allows you to make a detailed description of each mineral The Notepad may appear blank Py or with tex
46. to con figure AppleCORE whenever you wish to use the special purpose icons and then return to the default items after you finish the project See the following sections on installing and saving custom files for more information Custom files are also valuable if you wish to exchange AppleCORE files with another user who does not have his copy of AppleCORE configured with the same custom items that you have Simply include a copy of your Custom file with the log file and he can con figure his AppleCORE temporarily with your custom file to see the log as you re corded it Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Sh Facies Col Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 47 Editing the Sample Types When recording Samples you can specify the sample type from a pop up menu in the text editing window The items in this menu can be specified by the user To accomplish this choose Edit Sample Types This will bring up a dialog win dow that allows you to add remove and alter items in the Sample Type pop up EDIT SAMPLE TYPES Pop up Menu Edit Bou Insert New Type Mew Sample Type Derete Menu ttem j o Replace Menu Item w Label Copy to Edit Box a Enter code for plotting 3 characters mau Note illegal menu characters l
47. two ways to assign text to be the current text First you can type anything you wish in the text editing box Al ternatively you may choose an item from the scrolling list by clicking on it This will place the item from the scrolling list into the text edit box There are four sep arate scrolling lists one for each of Facies Facies Association Depositional Envi ronment and Depositional Complex The list will change when you select one of these items by clicking on its radio button To add new items to the list type your text in the text editing box Then use the list editing buttons to Add the text to the list or to Replace the currently selected shaded item in the list with your new text To delete an item from the list select it by clicking on it and then click the Delete button The lists are saved with the program Logging Clastic Lithology 361 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct Y Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofassils 361 Fossils HF Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity EK Hydrocarbon Indica 32H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color A Hard Rock Structur 4M Post depositional F la Facies Environment 8 Stratigraphy Remarks E Ele Label ca Photo x Sample 3s Depth Marker fed Thin Section 77 You can assign colours to any of the items on the list The colour is used as a background for the item when it is plotted on the strip log To colourize it
48. warning will appear before you are permitted to delete a text item Logging Post depositional F Stratigraphy fy Remarks Ea Label ee Photo x Sample H Depth Marker Thin Section 82 Clastic Lithology 1 Carbonate Lithology 32 Sedimentary Struct Y Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofossils 1 Fossils F Grain Size Texture G Porosity K Hydrocarbon Indica 3H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color R Hard Rock tructur 3M Facies Environment 3B E Working with Depth Markers The core depths drillers depths that you record as the Box Depths can be cor related to an alternate depth system Typically you may wish to correct the drill er s depths to the wireline depths To record depth corrections choose Depth Marker from the Logging menu and click aza Jn OOK on some core feature for which you know the wireline depth When you place a Depth Marker a small data window allows you to enter the wireline depth that correlates to that point The Depth Marker record now has two depths the driller s depth picked up from the position you clicked on core sche matic and the wireline depth that you entered You can record as many Depth Markers as you wish on the core schematic To change the entered depth on a Depth Marker click on its icon s in the core schematic This will open the depth window again and you can cha
49. will ask you to give the file aname You should give it a name that is different from the ASCII file The ASCII file may contain some optional data records that provide informa tion about the well that is nor 2 SS DIT ID 289 from CoreNew fisre ASCII File Parameters mally entered in the Header Window But it may also con Top of Box Viewed at Core Columns per Bou Oupper left Upper Right I T tain records that tell E AppleCORE how to configure t C a itself for this particular data Feet Meters ee P set Although there are de Schematic Column Interval 1 0 faults for most of these items if they are not found in the AS C KA CII file a dialog box may ap pear prompting the user for more information AppleCORE will also check the ASCII file for some errors or inconsistencies in New Log Open Log 0 Close Log W Save BS Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 25 the data If errors are found a dialog box will appear giving the user the choice of skipping the problem data and continuing or cancelling the import altogether The dialog will also show the na ERROR BOH depth records must exist to cover the interval of all ture of the problem and ap other data records 3 proximately where it The following record has a depth ly
50. wish to have a legend plotted on the strip log click on the Legend button The Legend Options button brings up a dialog window allowing you to config LEGEND OPTIONS ure several items in the legend You have the Legend at Top of Log Legend at Base of Log Used Items Only O Full Legend choice of plotting the leg end at the top of the log Include Gray Scale items just below the header in Porosity Staining List Facies Interpretations O Facies O Facies Association O Depositional Environment O Depositional Complex formation or at the bot Helative Bioturbation Consolidation O Fissility tom of the log You can plot just the items that O include ASCH codes have been used in the current log or you can plot a full legend that includes all non blank icon items and all non blank litholo gies Be aware that the full legend can be quite long You may not wish to plot the items displayed in gray scale columns since they are somewhat intuitive You can also choose to plot in the legend all of the text recorded as Facies Environment items This can help interpret any of these items that may have been truncated due to lack of space in their column intervals on the strip log If you have chosen to display the Facies Environment intervals with a background colour Facies Env Options the colour will also be plotted in the legend You normally will not want t
51. your changes To assign a colour to your lithology click on the Choose Background Colour button This Choose a highlight color will bring upa standard Macintosh colour chooser window in which you can select a Hu A colour and brightness Saturation n om 1 8 Brightness Simply click on the de 8 8 8 sired colour from the col Green Blue 46428 our wheel and move the Cancer scroll bar to select the brightness The colour chooser window may look and function differently depending on the Mac System version that you are using Click OK if you wish to keep these changes otherwise Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented a Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As C Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 41 click Cancel This procedure is easier if performed on a colour monitor of course but it can be performed on a monochrome monitor as well All of the lithologies may be customised as desired and there are many empty spaces in the lithology palettes to create your own lithologies Not all of the avail able lithologies can be shown on the logging palettes at one time Many more items are available in the background and are accessible from the Lithology Master List Any position in a lithology palette c
52. 5 ii we Sulphates Curve None Data Set 1 Title Data Set 2 Data Set 3 Data Set 4 Data Set 5 Data Set 6 sata set 7 fata tet 8 Cumulative Plot Increasing Left Scale Orientation Increasing Right Scale Decimals Setup Format Draft the Log Export as Pict File Show Page B Breaks Open Format Save Format 97 EMEP EEED selected a button will appear next to Plot Order Data Set Colour h h h E 3 a g the pop up menu with the caption ai OC ae oryan a Setup Clicking on the Setup but Setup Format a Carbonate x Purple mj Draft the Log 3 4 suiphates s mme y ton will bring up a dialog window Export as Pict File o A a a a Eaa 2 Enone o e mulative plot This window contains Open Format 8 None m Black l Save Format Eiamol 8 pop up menus that allow you to se lect the data components and their or der in the plot as well as 8 pop up menus that allow you to set the colours that you wish to use for each component When you have configured the cumulative plot as desired you can further spec ify other plot features Clicking other XY Options will cycle through additional windows that will allow you to set the plot style and the track width etc as de scribed above For cumulative plots with many data elements you will want to
53. AppleCORE Version 8 User Guide updated August 1999 AppleCORE Version 8 Revised August 1999 User Guide A logging system for the recording and display of stratigraphic data Designed and Programmed for the Macintosh by Mike Ranger Limits on Warranty and Liability The software and the documentation are licensed to the licensee without any warranty express or implied including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantable quality and fitness for a particular purpose unless expressly included in a license agreement Due to the diversity of conditions under which the software may be used no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered or implied Michael J Ranger shall not be liable for any loss or damage howsoever caused including without limitation indirect or consequential loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of the software or the documentation COPYRIGHT This manual and the software described in it are copyrighted with all rights reserved Under copyright laws neither this manual nor the software may be copied in whole or in part without the written permission of Michael J Ranger except to make a backup copy This exception does not allow copies to be made for others whether or not sold Under the law copying includes translating to another language The software may not be altered or disassembled in any way 1999 Dr Michael J Rang
54. Calcareous Dolst Gypsum Anhyd E Oolitic Lst Coquina EA O politic Dolst HH O halite Calcareous shale L untitled Dolomitic shale __ untitied Empty Box Spacg Bx Lost Core an interval schematic box in the upper left of C INTERBEDDED the screen that contains the core box or interval selection controls The control box displays the current core and box and its top and bottom depth The top and base Lithology palette Scale bar Core box Interval depths are displayed in Alternate palette buttons schematic text editing boxes and are fully editable You may enter or change the depths from the Data Entry win dow as an alternative to using the Box Depths dialog from the Header Window The uphole and a downhole buttons allow you to step sequentially through the recorded data intervals You may also use the up arrow 7 and down arrow J cursor keys on the key board to move through the box schematics If you have an extended keyboard page up and page down will also take you sequentially through the data and the home key and end key will take you to the top and bottom respectively of the core The home and end keys duplicate the Go To Top and Go To Base items in the Search menu If you are logging in Outcrop mode the control box will look slightly differ ent Outcrop mode is a more generic configuration that does not use the co
55. O11 slick in mud when the point of the pencil is at the depth to which the comment will refer A new window will ap Editable Remarks Mouse Cursor pear into which text can be typed and edited To close the text win dow click in its go away box in the upper left hand corner or sim ply select another item from the menu Once the text window disappears a new icon will have appeared in the col umn schematic at the depth where the pencil cursor was clicked The icon is that of a small pencil and note pad To read or edit the Icons Cursors text at any time click the cursor on the note pad Remarks icon The text window will appear once again and the information may then be edited in any manner Label The other text entry items work in the same man Photo ner but each has its own cursor and associated Sample icon Logging Clastic Lithology 61 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct 3Y Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofossils a Fossils F Grain Size Texture 36 Porosity K Hydrocarbon Indica 36H Sorting Roundness 2T Rock Color R Hard Rock tructur Post depositional F Facies Environment 3B Stratigraphy Remarks ae Label Ge Photo de Sample 34s Depth Marker Thin Section 81 The Remarks text will appear as comments on the drafted strip log Remem ber that the space for remarks on the right hand side of the strip l
56. ON SHOWS LITHOFACIES LITHOFACIES ASSOCIATION DEPOSITIONAL COMPLEX Gamma Ray POROSITY REMARKS FOSSILS J SORTING COLOUR Estuary Ch aband Upperreservoirin 9 metre sand filled estuarine channel fill 3 metre gas cap Estuarine System Estuary Channel Lowstand to the desired size while holding down the mouse button To change the window s position on the screen click anywhere in its title bar and drag it to the desired position scroll The vertical and horizontal scroll bars allow you to scroll through ea the strip log if the screen is not big enough to show the entire image Click in the scroll arrows to move a few lines at a time or click in the shaded area to move a page at a time Or you can click on the thum bwheel icon and drag it to a new position in the scroll bar This will scroll the image to the same relative position in the window When you print the log the printout will look more or less the thumbwheel same as the drafted strip log on the computer screen However the resolution of the printer is much higher than the screen so that the printed image typically looks much sharper than the screen image Modifying the Column Order and Column Widths The data columns on the strip log may be plotted in any order and the widths of some but not all of the columns may also be ad
57. ORE to its regular working configuration The Custom file EVAP CONFIG that you cre ated can then be uploaded into the program to customize the logging palettes for those occasions when you have special requirements In this way there could be several Custom files created by different users solely for their unique requirements Be aware however that to see the graphic data and the strip log as they were re corded the custom file that was installed when the data was recorded must be reinstalled Because of this it may be prudent to keep a copy of the relevant cus tom file with the files that were created using it Note however that AppleCORE contains many empty positions in the palettes and it usually is not worth the trouble of creating a custom file for only a few spe cial icon items or lithologies If you wish to send data files to a user who does not have your custom config uration simply create a custom file of your program configuration and include it on the disk with your data files The outside user can then load your custom file into his copy of AppleCORE open view and print your files and then reload his original configuration When a new update of AppleCORE is shipped it is shipped with the original default items installed To quickly transfer your customised configuration from the old version to the new version you can load directly from one version of AppleCORE directly to the other Other versions of AppleCORE will
58. RA line pattern If Grain Size is the Active data palette Inactive data Overlap active palette then the Texture Grain Size and Texture displayed together on the schematic The gray pattern is the data from the active palette The cross hatch pattern EE isthe inactive data NOTE that the patterns reverse when the alternate palette is activated data is displayed in the line pat tern To activate this function switch on Show Texture with Grain Size Some users may wish to record whether items selected from the symbol icon palettes are predominant major ina facies interval To use this option you must first activate it by clicking on the Display Major Icon button By default this button is not activated since its use is somewhat redundant when relative abun dance is recorded You may wish to set a limit on the number of characters that can be recorded in a remarks window To do this click on the Limit Remarks Length but Special Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 38 ton and set the desired limit in the text entry box If this switch is on while record ing remarks and you exceed the limit a beep
59. Samples or Depth Markers you will get a warning asking you to confirm the need to copy these items since they are not facies data If you Cut the data from a box all the data is cut and you get no warnings Pasting the data into a box actually replaces any existing data in that box with pasted data Cut Box Copy Box and Paste Box use the standard keyboard equivalents Hot Keys of R C and U respectively but with the Shift key held down This is the significance of the A symbol next to the keyboard equivalent in the Edit menu Cut Box Copy Box Paste Box 35 Inserting and Deleting Intervals When Logging in Outcrop Mode intervals may be inserted above or below the current interval schematic or the current interval schematic may be deleted These functions are available under the Edit menu but only in Outcrop mode These commands do not appear in Core mode The inserted interval takes its top depth from the base of the overlying interval and its base depth from the top of the un derlying interval Thus if the existing intervals were continuous in depth the new blank interval will have its top and base set to the same value Depths will have to be adjusted accordingly Itis of course not required that each display schematic represent the same interval thickness If an interval is deleted there may be a gap in depths which should be adjusted although if the gap remains when th
60. Well column H Very Well Erase Ej Bimodal Logging Clastic Lithology 1 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct 3Y Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofossils El Fossils F Grain ize Texture 36 Porosity K Hydrocarbon Indica 36H Sorting Roundness 2T Rock Color R Hard Rock tructur Post depositional F Facies Environment Stratigraphy Remarks e Label Ge Photo de Sample 34s Depth Marker Thin Section 71 3M b 3B 3E Rock Colour Choosing Rock Colour from the Logging menu allows you to record your colour observations based primarily on terms standardised by the Geological So ciety of America The GSA publishes a rock colour chart to compare your samples with and to obtain accurate standard descriptions Or you can simply use Ap pleCORE s Rock Colour palette for quick subjective descriptions The Rock Colour palette allows you to choose a colour based on three criteria intensity hue and hue modifier Intensity and modifier are optional The symbol gt indicates that no value is selected Each of the three descriptors is chosen intensity modifier hue from a pop up menu Click on the box in which the jcey dit PRTA pac current value is shown and hold down the mouse mea CiM creamy cream button Select the desired item from the pop up med dark ue sre my menu by releasing the mouse button
61. acies Environment columns or four Stratigraphy columns For the Facies Environment columns Plot Mi Facies you can optionally choose to display C Colour Coded any of the items with its assigned col our as a background fill on the strip log Click on the Colour Coded button Stratigraphy columns cannot be colour coded 4 Facies Association CO Colour Coded A Depositional Environment C Colour Coded Mi Depositional Complex O Colour Coded O pt Font Size Ge Modifying the Strip Log Columns The plot order and width of the data columns in the strip log can easily be modified once the strip log has been drafted In the Strip Log window move the 99 cursor into the caption area of a data column and hold down the shift key The cursor will become a hand amy icon While keeping the shift key depressed you can then drag the column to the desired position The strip log will redraft in the new column order after each drag To change a column width hold the Shift key down and move the cursor to a column boundary The cursor will change to a double direction arrow if the width can be adjusted Not all column widths can be adjusted While keeping the shift key depressed drag the column margin to the desired width A column width is adjusted from its right hand margin The strip log will redraft to the new column width after each drag See also the section Modifying the Column Orde
62. acnmarsacnacsianiatta 97 POrOSIY lt aviatucasinninccsvnesnetinesobasitanensiesibanivasnuytenloveunaibonniardaceonssaain 98 Rematks su t ioctanespatsndts naonna esii eaan a dada hitads 98 Facies Environment and Stratigraphy ssssssessssisesreesriessessresss 99 Modifying the Strip Log Columns ss sssssssesessesessssssirssressrressereren 99 Drafting the Strip Log ss sssssssssssesrssissstrssressseersrtesnressrresrrrerrresrresrrsns 101 Saving the Strip Log as a Graphic Image File ote 103 Page BUCA KS ciscstasadanshasnvachsatenainahsynsphaliwldiass delasnaus aare aiii 105 Using Format Piles menirii arara 106 The Search Mei i lt ccte ieechccected eanarelec dose eceedtuln be va carecndcald A a alani 107 Navigating Through the Schematic Data ccc tees eeseeeeeeeee 107 The Window Menu 22 sessans Peaks ccaaisncatsaes taacatnsanys thats alentaaihesasabasesvaasasaeipatta 108 Recording Hard ROCK Data sic siircssvistessoriecstnvensniineuernieenienennaneried 109 The Hard Rock Lithology Palette sas icsssiccessatnatecatsarisaiges svabigutidedatess dain 109 Hard Rock Description Dialogs a ccsiasisasieatsecoudaassib vealed nagaivsteebtaieiats 109 Mineral Om ponent Lists Lssccsgceastiacaanecntacasatteniasnarcudataseriudcntorsdattentss 112 Mineral Selection Dialog sesssadessactevamasatecinasertiatedetoaaieramdeoraannndyd 113 Mineral Description Dialog s ssssssesssssssessssessesessssissessssenessessssessesesnes 115 Texture Fabric Dialog es s
63. age break lines are not of course printed on the strip log Display ing page breaks allow you for example to preview how many pages you may have to splice when you print the strip log To make splicing easier lines of text in the Remarks column are shifted so that a horizontal page break never cuts through the text Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format 105 Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Using Format Files The strip log format may be saved as a Format file The Format can then be sn Show Page Break applied to any other log This makes the Setup Format configuration easy to du t Len N plicate exactly for a project that includes many logs Select Save Format to save the current strip log configuration as a new Format file A dialog window will AR ask you to provide a name for the file The Format file will be FORMAT created and hasa unique icon To use a Format file select Open Project Format l Format This opens the format file and puts the Apply menu item in the Drafting menu The Format file name will be appended after the word Apply The Apply item will not appear in the Drafting menu until you open a format file The open Format then remains available until you open anoth er Format file or quit the program When you Apply the format the stri
64. an be loaded with any item from the Master List In this manner the appearance of the working palettes can be customised as desired To access the Master List double click on a lithology button from a lithology palette The Master List appears in a window that has a scrolling list of lithologies Each line in the list displays a lith LITHOLOGY coal matrix supported grain supported ology caption with its unique ASCII code number The lithology pattern conglomerate paa LENE appears in the preview window at DOLOSTONE Dolori tic Lst the lower left when an item is se Calcareous Dolst Oolitic Lst Oolitic Dolst Calcareous Shale lected by clicking on it Use the scroll bar at the right side of the win Edit Selection Put in Palette dow to scroll through the entire list Lines with the caption untitled are blank and can be used to create your own lithology To quickly find an item in the list click on the Find button This will bring up a dialog window from which you can specify a piece of text to search for Alter natively you can search for a specific ASCII code If you then click OK the Master List will scroll to the first occurrence of the search term It will however search only from the currently selected item down to the end of the list To search the entire list first scroll to the top of the list and click on the first item and then run F
65. and then click on the Note RA Secondary Alteration Slight 2 18 j pad button This will initiate the Second ary Alteration Dialog path records secondary minerals secondary texture and alteration products arg Rork Higa Peeve i igays Primary Mineratogy pe RBEK Pupa e a lumeous Oy ede tarrepertte oy Bilered S Seb fite 24 Phang regst4 EPGHAGIASS A secondary Alteration Crystelliniti Phanerni f Secondary Mineralogy RA Secondary Texture g Alteration Products Add Mineral pe Lieiadsy Barm i Logger Beqarin un K a Cancel OK Lormmea ts General bihelude lt armaments i Cancel If the primary rock type has been recorded as Altered the Secondary Alter ation path is redundant and its button will not appear All of the descriptive data will be recorded from the primary description path In this case when the prima Rock Type ry rock type is clicked as Altered the Notepad Igneous button will appear next to the Altered button al Metamorphic EA Altered lowing the user access the Alteration Products O Sulfide Sulfate Oxide dialog 117 Alteration Products Dialog The Alteration Products Dialog allows you to record observations on the sig nificant mineral products of alteration from olivine plagioclase clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene In the
66. as desired The fourth window the Image Viewer window is a scrolling window that displays digital images imported from several different formats The digital im age can be rotated and scaled and the Image Viewer window can be resized and its position on the screen may be moved as desired The Log Header Window This window opens when a new file is created or when an existing file is opened File Edit Special Logging Drafting each Window LOG HEADER Well Name TPPL Christina EW Isd sec twprng mer other Date Logged January 14 1994 Logged by Mike Ranger Remarks Tar Sands Well m Depths Recorded in i feet O metres Ground 2198 00 KB 2208 00 The window contains a number of text entry fields that are used to produce a header for the strip log as follows the well name maximum 255 characters the location in township range format Note when entering the meridian it is not necessary to include the letter w as in w4 west of the 4th meridian since this is automatically included on the drafted strip log title A general area other maximum 255 characters is provided for locations that are not in the township survey system the present date the date is filled in automatically with the present date from the computer s clock however this may be edited if required maximum 50 char acters the name of the person logging the data maximum 255 characters t
67. at may be filling the voids Parti Herk USuegi ieeerie diene RISER Tupe ee a igagous 3 Med aira ao Bbered PETEERE EZI Erys antlind fi Pharrarifiq ipis Goon Fracture Lilia Mni Lommenis Genera Hihgiegu cprmrmenis Voids Description Abundance Size 5 z avg 16 888 mm max 26 868 E min 5 6068 r Shape irregular Secondary Mineral Filling 100 Quartz RA Add Mineral PPO URE M ES Rdg Minaral i campi 119 Using the Key to Determine Rock Name When you have completed recording all the minerals and their proportions for a lithology interval as well as the crystallinity and texture AppleCORE can de termine the rock name if you run the KEY The rock name is assigned from a pre determined list in the data base Running the KEY will bring up a dialog window showing the rock name AppleCORE has determined In some cases AppleCORE may require some addi tional user input to apply the Rock Name from Key correct modifier to the rock User Input Required name This will appear in a box Select Modifier Volcaniclastic Breccia 2 with the caption User Input Re p Roce Name From Key quired The KEY only deter Volcaniclastic Rhyolite Breccia mines rock names for igneous If key name is not suitable select
68. ay vary Gag slightly on the printout depending on how accurately your printer processes pa per through its path If no margins are specified AppleCORE always places the strip log at the top left edge of the page Drafting a Partial Interval When drafting and printing you need not plot the entire file You can choose a partial interval to plot from the Set Draft Full Interval Interval button Specify the interval in O Draft Partial Interval the edit boxes and indicate feet or meters veils aia If you specify a partial interval outside of To 8 8 feet the interval covered by the core depths the inappropriate interval will be ignored ES and the full core will be drafted Export Options Third party graphics applications that import PICT format images may have problems with AppleCORE s rotated text You may choose to Plot Rotated Text as Bitmaps raster images This will generally solve the problem although bit PICT EXPORT OPTIONS For exporting PICT graphic files to the Windows platform these options attempt to correct some common problems mapped text may have a somewhat lower resolution than regular printed text O Plot Rotated Text as Bitmaps O Horizontal Offset of Rotated Text Rotated text may also appear hori Offset 8 pixels zontally displaced when imported into third party graphics applications Ex
69. bonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct Y Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofossils 1 Fossils Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity eK Hydrocarbon Indica H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color eR Hard Rock Structur 4M Post depositional F b Facies Environment 8 Stratigraphy Remarks E Ele Label Ga Photo ee Sample 3s Depth Marker Thin Section 68 Porosity and Hydrocarbon Indicators Porosity Three types of data can be recorded in the porosity window pore types visual qualitative porosity and absolute numeric porosity Toggle between the three by clicking their respective radio buttons To log visual porosity choose the desired degree of porosity from the pop up menu Display the pop up menu by clicking in the box displaying the current se lection and holding down the mouse button Select the desired porosity by releas ing the mouse button over the item The selected item now becomes the current degree of porosity Record the item by dragging over the desired interval or dou ble clicking in a lithology in CORE 1 BOH 1 1484 85 feet top 1476 66 ft phoein terval Visual porosity is base 1481 66 Tt recorded and displayed as a 2 PORE TYPE E intraross J gray scale column Abundance Common w Porosity can also be re POROSITY a Visual corded in quantitative terms Activate this by clicking on the
70. contains all of the minerals in the data base in alphabetical order Choose a mineral by clicking on its name The fastest method of selecting a common Alkali Feldspar 5 Amphibole b rock forming mineral is probably to choose Biotite Clinopyroxene Feldspathoid Garnet from the Igneous Minerals pop up menu 5 Feldspathoid Leucite This menu is simple but intuitively nested with Muscovite SEPTER Olivine Cancrinite j submenus to allow a quick selection of the most Orthopyroxene eadaite Onides Hauuni Fi i ynite commonly occurring minerals For more un Plagioclase eliit Quartz common minerals that may not exist in any of Spinels Sulfides the pop up menus you may search the scroll ing list which is more time consuming or sim The mineral you have entered is not available in the data base ply type the name in the edit box to see if it is Do you wish to substitute accepted when you exit the dialog If the name eee is not in the data base or if you have entered a accept sunstitute typo you will receive a warning and possibly an alternate suggestion Enter the mineral proportion from the pop up menu or by typing in the edit box Depending on the context you may also enter the range AppleCORE will not allow the total mineral proportion The components would sum to greater to exceed 100 You may select tr than 166 if there is only a trace of t
71. d data changes For example suppose one has recorded intervals of oolitic limestone ASCII code 1308 and then subsequently changes the meaning of code 1308 to mean silty shale Then the next time the file is opened everything that was recorded as oolit ic limestone will now show up as silty shale One should therefore not change the meaning of any of the existing items in a logging window You can change the ap pearance of an icon or pattern and even the way it is referred to in the title but not its fundamental meaning There are plenty of blanks spaces in the palettes to add new items as required But again once created their meaning should not be altered A difficulty arises when you wish to exchange files with another user who may have created some custom items that are not installed in your copy of AppleCORE or to whose ASCII codes you have assigned different meanings To accommodate situations like this a useful feature included in AppleCORE is the facility to save the configuration of your customised version of AppleCORE as a stand alone Custom File This file is the resource table that contains all of the icon graphics and lithology patterns and their titles It also contains the lists of Facies Facies Association Depositional Environment and Depositional Complex items along with their colours Custom files can be identified by their unique icon At any time you can install a Custom file to re configure the pr
72. d elsewhere in this manual under the section Recording Hard Rock Data Interbedded Lithology Selecting an interbedded lithology to log is a two step process Select the pri mary lithology by clicking a lithology button with INTERBEDDED turned off Then click the INTERBEDDED button on and select the secondary lithology Both of the primary and secondary lithologies can be selected from any of the 8 palettes sil iciclastic or carbonate Hard Rock lithologies should not be recorded as interbed ded Note that on the drafted strip log the primary lithology is always plotted on the right hand side of the lithology column when the column is plotted with no profile and Bedding Vertical is turned on in the Setup Format dia log of the Drafting menu The _Not Observed E INTERBEDDED Beddin SAND SANDSTONE with 50 interbedded box will now look like this example Logging Hard Rock Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Fossils Grain Size Texture Porosity Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness Rock Color Hard Rock Structur Post depositional F Facies Environment Stratigraphy Remarks Ee Label E Fhoto RK Sample H Depth Marker Thin Section 59 The interbedded percent may be specified from the pop up menu that lies un der the current box To see the pop up
73. depth information Once Box Tally information is entered most of the menu items become activated Before you start recording sedimentological data in core mode you have the option of showing the core box schematic with one or two columns to mimic the actual core box This option is accessed through the Options item under the Special menu The options for more than 2 columns per box are not yet available Automatic Depth Increments in the Box Depths dialog will automatically increment succeeding or preceding boxes as long as a top and bottom depth are recorded for the box showing The incrementation occurs as you click up hole or downhole and as long as both the top and bottom depths of the suc ceeding or preceding box are both 0 0 Bring up the Data Entry Window by choosing any item from the Logging menu Record data by dragging the mouse over the desired interval or double click ing in an interval Double clicking in an empty box schematic fills that box with the data item Double clicking or dragging over an interval that already QuickStart contains data will substitute the new data for the existing data An effective way to collect data is to first record all the lithologic data as your basic facies intervals Then double click all the other information into these intervals The top and bottom of a core column are assumed to be continuous facies in tervals with the preceding or succeedi
74. des facies intervals in proportion to the relative percents of the two litholo gies With Bedding Vertical turned off the lithologic column takes on a more realistic but less accurate appearance over interbedded intervals Note that if you Setup Format Draft the Log 8 Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format 87 have recorded lithologic components using the ternary diagram you must at present turn off the Profile and select Bedding Vertical in order to show the three components Profile Configuration Grain Size Texture O Reference Lines tA Aagged Edge cobble pebble granule sand wemi olay iir Use Full Set Delete Cobble Profile O Delete Pebble Profile Delete Granule Profile Profile Orientation E I Hag r ac amp Q boundstr grainstn packstn wackesth pe WA Use Aeduced Set The Profile Options but ton brings up a dialog window with additional choices You may choose to display the li thology profile with the pro file oriented towards the left or right The Ragged Edge adds a random 1 pixel irreg ular edge to the profile giving ita more realistic look Turn it off if you wish to see a more accurate rather than a more aesthetic profile Reference lines can be extended to the base of the column if desired You can also remove the cobble pebble and gran ule class
75. e Options dia log allows you to plot only major items if desired interval data the item s icon is plotted be tween arrowheads Items recorded as ma jor items are plotted with solid black arrowheads and are given priority to the Select these items to display them in columns on the strip log If an item has been recorded as point data the item s icon will be plotted at the appropriate depth For st gt POVASIVE Abundant Common gt Moderate _ gt Rare The Options button brings up a dialog that allows you several options for plotting the icon data either as point data in the lithologic column or as interval GRAIN SIZE cobble PHYSICAL STRUCTURES METRES Point Data Interval Data data in separate columns You could also choose to plot all items both in separate columns and in the lithology column On the strip log AppleCORE attempts to fit the icons into the space available in the column without overlap If two of the same icon would overlap vertically in the lithologic column as point data only one icon is plotted to avoid un necessary clutter For very small scales excessive overlap may be inevitable To avoid this you may wish to plot some of the items in the lithologic column and some in the separate interval col umn When plotted in the lithology column Physical Structure icons are plotted on the right s
76. e are standard palettes of icon items and their function is described in detail under the section Logging with Graphic Icons To log an item click on its icon If desired choose its relative abundance from the abundance pop up menu Log the item as spot data by clicking once in the core schematic at the observed depth or record the item as an interval by dragging over the observed interval or dou bling clicking in a lithology interval the command key 3 Lithification The Lithification palette con sists of two items Consolida tion and Fissility These items are logged as gray scale columns alongside the core schematic To log select the item by clicking on one of the radio buttons from either column Then drag over the ob served interval or double click ina facies interval Core Condition The Core Condition palette allows you to record the core con dition as symbols in a manner simi the Hydrocarbon Indicator palettes lar to Porosity and Choose the symbol from the pop up menu and drag or double click on a schematic interval You can To erase an icon click on it while holding down 1510 00 ft uphale 1512 50 ft downhole CONSOLIDATION FISSILITY HO Extreme Ho Extreme EO Strong i Strong Moderate Moderate Fe poor F O Poor E Unconsolid Fl Non fissile 1
77. e log is drafted it will simply appear as a gap on the strip log In Core mode the recording of intervals cores and boxes is much more rigor ous and you cannot Inset Interval or Delete Interval from the Edit menu However the number of boxes in a core may still be adjusted from the Box Tally item in the Header window Undo Cut 38H Copy C Paste U Cut Box A3H Copy Box C Paste Box Insert Above Insert Below Delete Interval 38 36 File Edit Evrae Logging Drafting Search Window The Special Menu Options The Options item in the menu brings up a dialog window that allows you to configure the program to your requirements or preferences Several items allow Top of Bou Viewed at kA Box Schematic Scale Bar Upper Left Upper Right major divisions Lower lest Lower Right minor ticks per division Core Columns per Box make every 5 an intermediate tick mi nii iil O Limit Remarks Length wi O2 5 4 5 6 Limit 144 characters A Cursor Depth Display Logging Menu Options O Feet Meters O Show Grain Size On Icon Menus Decimals 2 8 60 8008 O Display Clay Option Display Total Depth Display Column Depth O Display Major Icon Option O Show Texture with Grain Size A ODP Configuration Spelling ane CANCEL Bring up Hard Rock dialogs British mrs M automatically while logging American you to configure the box schematic in the data entry window So
78. e updated format which may not then be compatible by the earlier version of the AppleCORE In such cases you may want to save the file as a different name leaving the original unaltered See following pages regarding saving files Close Log Save 3S Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 23 Saving a File to Disk As you log your core you are creating a data file in RAM That data is not per manent until it is saved to disk When finished recording data select Save from the menu to load it to a disk If this is a new log you will be asked to provide a name for the file If you have simply made changes to an existing log these chang es will immediately be saved It advisable to also save your work frequently while logging especially if un familiar with the program or the Macintosh A power failure or an unexpected system error could result in the loss of all the data recorded since the last Save If you opena data file make changes to it and then decide that you would like to keep the original data file intact select Save As from the menu A dialog window will ask you to provide anew name and the altered file will be saved as a separate document leaving the original file intact New Log Open Log Close Log Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import Exter
79. e used to transfer data to other programs or can be refor matted for uploading to a data base See the previous section Importing ASCII Files and the Appendix for more information about the ASCII files Following is an short example of what an ASCII file would look like opened with a word processor LTH 2406 00 LTH 2407 00 LTH 2420 69 LTH 2421 00 LTH 2421 17 LTH 2421 75 2407 00 1295 999 100 999 999 999 2408 00 1295 999 100 999 999 999 2421 00 999 999 100 999 999 999 2421 17 999 999 100 999 999 999 2421 75 1286 999 100 999 999 392 2422 00 1286 999 100 999 999 999 LTH 2422 00 2423 00 1286 999 100 999 999 999 LTH 2423 00 2424 00 1286 999 100 999 999 999 PHY 2421 28 206 ACC 2421 33 251 ACC 2421 73 251 ACC 2421 80 251 PHY 2421 92 208 PHY 2422 19 202 ACC 2422 31 251 PHY 2422 45 208 PHY 2422 63 216 PHY 2423 40 202 PHY 2423 52 216 ACC 2423 63 251 PHY 2423 79 208 GRS 2421 00 2421 17 6999 GRS 2421 17 2421 19 1999 GRS 2421 19 2421 75 1999 GRS 2421 75 2421 96 2999 GRS 2421 96 2422 00 3999 TXT 2421 88 342 Unit 5 probably consists of abundant small scale coarsening upward cycles of low angle cross laminated sand stone with truncation surfaces defining sets lt 50cm thick Laminae are marked by dark organic material possi bly finely comminuted plant debris Burrowing exceedingly rare although unslabbed nature of core makes determination difficult Note that the word processor has added line returns to the
80. eCORE will do the appro priate conversion for you However the units of the original depths need never be changed The original depths are those entered in the Box Depths dialog described below When logging in Core configuration see the section Initiating a New Log information must be recorded that indicates to the program the sequence of cores and boxes Before this basic information is provided most of the menu items will 10 be dimmed and logging cannot proceed In Outcrop configuration this infor mation is meaningless and logging may proceed immediately The Log Header window includes two buttons that are used to enter the core and box information the Box Tally and the Box Depths buttons The Box Tally Dialog The Box Tally button BOH TALLY opens a dialog window that CORE prompts the user to enter the Number of Boxes b Cy number of boxes in each core Selecting uphole or downhole TextEntry Box displays the core numbers in sequence and the number of boxes is entered in the text entry area The text entry area will accept 0 as the number of boxes however core data will not be accepted for any cores with 0 boxes You will hear a beep if anything other than a numeric character is entered The number of boxes in any core can be altered at any time in the program but be aware that reducing the number of boxes will cause the loss of all data from the deleted boxes
81. ece of text by dragging the mouse cursor over the it with the mouse button held down Or you can double click on a word to quickly select the entire word The selected text will invert Cut and Copy will copy the selected text into a buffer in RAM storage known as the clipboard which is invis ible to the user Cut also removes the selected text from the user s document where as Copy leaves it intact Paste copies the text from the clipboard and places it in the user s document where the blinking cursor is or if another piece of text has been selected Paste will replace the selection Whatever is in the clipboard re mains there until another Cut or Copy is performed and may be used over and over again Undo will reverse the last data collection function that was performed and is used to correct errors Immediately hitting Undo a second time will Redo the last function Cut Box Copy Box and Paste Box can be used to move the entire data from one box schematic to another This allows you for instance to copy the data from one box into several succeeding CAUTION boxes if the same facies continues over Bee nus E secon several boxes Or if you accidentally these items Copy Don t Copy start entering data at the wrong interval Remarks ry depth you can cut and paste into the Photos correct schematic boxes If you try to E HA 3 Copy data that contains Remarks epth Markers Labels ot Photos
82. elative proportions or they may be plotted so that the proportions increase left or right regardless of the lithologies Lost Core Turning on Lost Core X flags lost core intervals with a crossed out area Turning it off leaves a blank interval Contacts The contacts Options window allows the user the option of displaying or hiding the facies contacts If a facies does not have a contact recorded the default is a single point straight line Turning off Show Facies Contacts will make all the contacts disappear including the default contacts You can also turn off plot ting of the default contacts only while FACIES CONTACT OPTIONS leaving the recorded contacts to draft nor mally by clicking on the Hide Default Contact Lines button W Show Facies Contacts Hide Default Contact Lines Show Gradational Contact Symbol Gradational contacts are normally drafted graphically on the lithologic pro aan file such that the actual contact position is not marked with a symbol If you click on Show Gradational Contact Sym bol the contact will be delineated with the symbol This is especially useful when plotting the lithology column with no profile where there would otherwise be no indication of the nature of the contact Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format 89 Legend If you
83. ems first make sure Facies Colours is switched on Check the Special menu If Show Facies Colours is flagged with a check mark it is on and colour boxes will be displayed next to the items in the scrolling list If the check mark is not present select Show Facies Colours from the menu to turn it on To assign a colour select the item you wish to colourize from the scrolling list Then from the Special menu select Colorize Selected Facies This will bring up the standard Macintosh colour chooser dialog from which you can pick a colour The chosen colour will be displayed to the left of the text item in the scroll ing list To record a facies or an environment on your log make sure the desired item Facies Facies Association Depositional Environment or Depositional Complex is the current item by clicking its radio button Make sure the desired text is the current text displayed in the text editing box Then you can record the text in the standard way by dragging the cursor over an interval in the core schematic or by double clicking in a facies interval The text will appear rotated on the schematic and centered between two arrowheads To erase intervals click on the text while depressing the command key The interval in the core schematic may not be long enough to plot all the text In this case it will be truncated to fit in the space available The full text is record ed internally however and no data i
84. ent s s ssessssessesssseressessssessesesses 77 Stratigraphy Samba chanics tue sedlevun ene lus estan tunatonde ec neriacn mr naiai 79 Text Entry Men Items pcctaccsaigssactisacsehassasfesvivacedaiaesaatinatatectactuctte 81 Working with Depth Markers ss sssssssssesseessssseesssisssrrssrrrrrrsrrrssresss 83 Recording Thin Sections sssssessisisiiecsreirirrieieirisrriseirssriesriieriesenisss 85 The Drafting Menu sss ssssssssessssesssisssissstissstsssstesrtesnrrsstresrernsretsnresnrrsseresset 86 Specifying the Strip Log Format sss sssssssssesssssserssiesstrssrrrerrresrrrssress 86 1t 1 E E EEA 86 Litho Column Profile sistesicininasieninincsiciduniiia 87 LOSC COLE E nhan a ae ni a A a A anne 89 CONTACTS inerea airar aitain eeta aaa diaaa ai aaa 89 TC CTU EEE AAE 90 Header OPE ONS iheir an eiiiai aii ASAA 90 Page Margis itsa incctuessatctesintspesads casbuciteaneps inecooeuenedboned arrnonwaanaatn 91 Drafting Partal Intervals siscaslicisicsescctestaattancssateacnebieate tien tutte 91 EXPOPEOPHONS Geinviststuvscapivinsaruntadduoetisabat sitet bwvaserenasdecbeltaadinys 91 Ke Oe i EPEE EE She etaussdnoae ts saraulentslal ae andetasasnubiatagesaans 92 Plotting Data Colas ssisssssiiresisinisissesrisissivirinniesiratessianiian 92 Symbol con Hems saree cersratecaiata arseadanotteabapacdiacagel ctabayStveatapo tiaras 93 XY PN OTS Ss hirssi lisalisi taieste enara aie aaa aa ai 95 Cumulative PIOUS sascicntscadoigacsdacscatiatcnincoduitoatinacstessd
85. epth Marker Thin Section SAND SANDSTONE sandy shale silty sand shaly sand SILT SILTSTONE sandy silt clayey silt silty shale Empty Box Spa clay claystone a organic shale coal conglomerate matrix supported SHALE MUDSTONE H grain supported breccia ce Kq Lost Core also create an extra data column alongside the core schematic in which a histogram of the re corded data is displayed 63 Note that on smaller monitor screens of the Mac Classic and SE part of the right side of the histogram data column will be cut off This does not affect the record ing of data in any way To record Clay data click on its radio button You can select the desired in increments of 5 from the pop up menu To see the pop up menu click on the box in which the current is shown and hold down the mouse button Select the desired by releasing the mouse button over the item The selected item now becomes the current Clay Now you can log the interval in the regular way by dragging or double click ing For clarity the selected is plotted in the histogram column for each recorded interval To erase an interval of Clay first make sure the Clay button is on Then drag over or double click the interval you wish to erase while holding down the command key 38 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
86. epth Markers you will M Include Core and Box No s also have the option of correcting all the depths to the bf Apply Depth Corrections z marker depths Then another dialog will prompt you CANCEL j to create a file name When viewing the files in your word processor choose a font whose characters are all the same width mono spaced Examples are Courier and Monaco The lists are actually optimised for the Monaco font For tables of data these fonts line up columns of characters in an aesthetic manner A short example of a Photo File opened with word processor is shown here 09 10 66 10w6 CANHUNTER ET AL DENN TT DEPTH PHOTO DESCRIPTION 2425 51 Photo of burrows in cross laminated sandstone F7Gcm above base Unit 5 2427 79 Fhoto of lithified flat pebble sandstone clasts 550cm above base Unit 5 2436 55 Photo of conglomeratic lag in Unit 1 The clasts are shale siltstone and indurated sandstone Matrix consists of mud silt and sand Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 54 AutoSave The AutoSave function can save you a lot of time and frustration It will auto matically make a backup copy of your data file while
87. er 808 West Chestermere Drive Chestermere Alberta CANADA T1X 1B6 tel 1 403 235 2712 fax 1 403 235 2723 e mail mranger cadvision com Apple is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer Inc Table of Contents Introduction scasarsatngdenvnsnnaho bsnl nninadaanaleidaiouienaads 1 How this manual is organized 2do casngticenudistecmseeenmelenes 1 Installing AppleGORE cisitiontanintnindindeianirnatiaceiniannenthasiantruade dats 2 QuickStart peaa a tertiles Nan naa a a ee 4 The WINdOWS seerne a AE aE EAEE E E R 8 The Log Header Window 0005 edits aaa aad 9 The Box Tally Dialog sisssiiirrersrrisreriiierisesrsirnerssiisritesnivrenesisiserersseeses 11 The Box Depths Dialog a saucer duteininnd cays jaadeatasnase 11 The Data Entry Window arsecyseiaidiatinemeilenen tenet ettiatenions 13 The Strip Log Window ss ssssssssesssssssesssiesstrsssesssttesrtesnttesrtnnreressresnresstressee 16 Modifying the Column Order and Column Width ou 17 The Image Viewer Wind Ow sss ssssssssisssisesseseirssresstrssrerersressresntessrresrererene 19 The Meng Descriptions saisine iE A E aun 20 Th File Wen srr anisa anann A Aa eaa 21 Itiating a New Log vias chcosyantonsudadanlornSonsdyt yanlemnasnutaianlanesdyeliacctars 21 Opening and Closing an Existing File c ccccisicuuaiiisancatianies 23 Savine a Fileto DISK snessiingeniun neinna o A ERRE 24 khnpor ng ASC IW Biles apicicanisatiustastisivalalacotah
88. es are displayed as grays instead of greens on your colour monitor you probably have your monitor configured for 4 bit colour allowing only 16 different colours Most colour systems now have enough VRAM to allow you to display a minimum of 256 colours allowing AppleCORE to operate with its full range of default colours Up and Running Quickly QuickStart If you are already familiar with the Macintosh these QuickStart notes will get you up and running with AppleCORE without having to read through the entire user manual AppleCORE requires Macintosh System 7 or 8 and requires a PPC processor When creating a new log you will have to choose between Core mode or Outcrop mode The main difference between the two is that in Core mode you must record the core and box numbers before proceeding This allows the program to keep track of the core boxes and their depths automatically as you record data In Outcrop mode you can record data stratigraphically up or down without limit The first window that appears when creating a new log or opening an existing log is the header window Before the program will allow you to enter any sed imentological data in Core mode you must first click on the Box Tally button and enter the number of boxes for each core This information may be changed ata later stage It is not necessary to enter the Box depths at this stage howev er you will not be able to draft the log without the
89. es on the grain size profile And you can use a reduced set of carbonate GRAIN SIZE METRES Profile with Ragged Edge and no reference lines GRAIN SIZE cobble pebble granule sand m silt clay METRES Profile with reference lines Ragged Edge turned off LITHOLOGY LITHOLOGY nO w E i interbedded lithology No Profile No profile Bedding vertical Drafting Setup Format Draft the Log 2 Export as Pict File Open Format Save Format 88 texture classes The reduced set includes only mudstone wackestone packstone grainstone and boundstone When these classes are turned off the profile will be expanded on the strip log making the profile easier to read The Bedding Vertical Options button allows the plot order of the vertical lith ology proportions to be specified Pro file must be OFF and Bedding Vertical must be turned ON There are Lithology Plot Order on Primary Secondary Tertiary as logged H O Proportion Increasing Left three options If the same primary sec gt Proportion Increasing Right ondary and tertiary lithologies are spec ified for successive lithology intervals but only the proportions are changed they may be plotted so that they always appear in the same order regardless of their r
90. from list below rocks For other rock types the For more detail you may also record user will be prompted to manu Logger Descriptive Name after closing this window Basalt ally select the rock name from a Aphyric Basalt Sparse ly Phyric Basalt i Moderately Phyric Basalt pop up menu Highly Phyric Basalt Voleaniclastic Basalt Breccia Voleaniclastic Basalt Ash Depending on the Crystallin Volcaniclastic Basalt Hyaloclastite Voleanic lastic Basalt Pumice tat ity and Fabric an Alternate button may appear in the dialog This will determine both the mi crocrystalline as well as the phaneritic rock name For example the user may wish to record a fine grained phan eritic lt 1mm rhyolite as a granite AppleCORE attempts to intercept some potential inconsistencies in the recorded data before determining the rock name For Mine ee instance if the mineral proportions sum to less than 100 you will receive a warning message If you disagree with the automated KEY determination or if there is insuffi cient information to determine the rock name you may override it by simply se 120 lecting from the scrolling list of all the rock names in the data base Since there are over 330 rock names in the data base the Search button will help you find a specif ic rock name in the list Clicking the Search button will display an edit box in which you may type a term to search
91. g The Texture Fabric dialog varies depending on the rock type as well as whether the rock is classified as Fragmental or Non Fragmental and whether the rock is classified as fine grained or not To access the Texture Fabric dialog you must first specify the crystallinity of the rock if igneous otherwise you will receive a warn A Texture Non Fragmental ing Also specify Fragmental or Non fragmental form the pop up menu Then click on the Notepad button The Notepad will appear to have text BA if texture fabric data has been collected for the lithology otherwise it will appear blank Py Shown here is the Non Fragmental Fine Grained Igneous Texture dialog Fine Grained Igneous Texture Orientation Random ___ _ Pre ferred O Seriate O Trachytic O Microlitic Et Parallel O Porphyritic O Aligned O Glomeroporphyritic O Wavy k O Poikilitic O Banded a O Ophitic O Foliated O Subophitic O Lineated idd Mineral O Interstitial O Layered M4 Intersertal O Comb Layered O Intergranular O Radiate O vesicular O Spherulitic O Scoriaceous O Variolitic O vitrophyric o O Loo tsi isSY Hin Kayi Comments E i Canced 116 Secondary Alteration Dialog Igneous and metamorphic lithologies may have Secondary Alteration From the main Hard Rock Description dialog select the Alteration Intensity from the pop up menu
92. g Note that a zone that is not logged but left blank meters Cursor depths exclude Box Space acts as if it were a lost core interval causing a gap on the strip log but will not display the X through its interval s Box Space 2 3 jrg 55 Animportant and perhaps confusing item x a o Sans maa is the Box Space interval In previous Posi Gorg AppleCORE versions this was referred to as the Not Drilled interval The term has been changed for clarity BOX Space is used to indicate part of the box that is not filled with Empty Box Space core i e the interval is merely empty box space no 2 gt Q oF O x lt 56 ono and the core is continuous onto the following Logging Hard Rock Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Fossils Grain Size Texture Porosity Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness Rock Color Hard Rock Structur Post depositional F Facies Environment Stratigraphy Remarks Label E Fhoto x Sample H Depth Marker Thin Section 60 piece This is not an uncommon situation For instance the core may be cut into 0 5 metre lengths but stored in boxes that are 0 75 metres long The recorded interval depths exclude any interval that is Box Space By using the Box Space pattern the recorded depths will be properly apporti
93. g one of the different colour schemes available in this dialog win dow PLOT OPTIONS M Physical Struct Litho Accessories A Trace Fossils O Fossils O Diagenesis O Fractures O Hard Rk Structures O Thin Sections O Photos O Fissili i Fissility O Oriented Core Flag O Clay Percent CO Rock Color O Core Disturbance EA HY Track 1 Grain Size O 8 Track 2 Options Texture CY Track 3 Options O Sample Types OHY Track 4 Options FA Porosity Plotting Data Columns O Pore Types O Staining M Hydrocarbon Shows W Relative Bioturb O Sorting C Roundness O Consolidation Display of the various data col umns on the strip log is controlled by clicking their check box buttons ON Some of these items also have options buttons associated with them which allow more display choices O Alteration Intensity Remarks Options O Facies Envir Options z oum M StratigraphyOptions Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format 92 Symbol Icon Items M Physical Struct Litho Accessories M Trace Fossils O Fossils O Diagenesis O Fractures O Hard Rk Structures O Thin Sections CJ Photos O Oriented Core Flag left of the plot column otherwise they are plotted with black out lined arrowheads The thickness of the line joining the arrowheads will reflect the recorded abundance A button in th
94. gy lookup KEY functions which are hardwired into AppleCORE Unti tled positions in the data base may be used for additional rock types but these will not be recognised by the KEY function You may wish to check your admin istration s policy on creating new rock types NOTE don t use INTERBEDDED Hard Rock lithologies This function is for 109 soft rock use only NOTE also that you may configure any of the palettes with any rock type For example you may load Hard Rock Lithologies in the Soft Rock palettes This will not affect the operation of AppleCORE and allows you more palette choices for a project with complex lithologies AppleCORE can be configured for recording Hard Rock data You can turn the hard rock configuration on or off from the Options dialog under the Spe cial menu In addition when you start a new log a configuration dialog will ap pear allowing you to choose Hard Rock configuration for that log The configuration is preserved when you save the file Hard Rock configuration only changes some of the menu captions to reflect the hard rock context but does not change the pro gram operation It is therefore purely optional 110 Hard Rock Description Dialogs To record a Hard Rock Lithology interval select a lithology from the palette menu in a manner similar to soft rock logging and drag over an interval on the schematic After recording the interval a dialog window will o
95. h screen Log Header Data Entry 0 Strip Log L Image Viewer 108 Recording Hard Rock Data The Hard Rock Lithology Palette There are four palettes of 16 items each for Hard Rock and a similar number for Soft Rock However AppleCORE maintains a much larger data base of lithol CORE 1 SECTION 1 123 84 meters top 126 68m base 125 686m Facies Contact 2 TLLLLLELLLE C INTERBEDDED Gedding L H wel ss Beygji za Basalt gt Anorthosite aa ha a 24 CO Bhyolite O Gabbro TLLLELELERE z Andesite 3 Norite FEREEEEEEEE Trachyte 3 Granite FER O Latite O Granodiorite Phonolite O Syenite Tephrite Dunite Lithology Palette Double click on an item s button Click to switch between to load a different item to the four palettes of hard rock lithologies palette position ogies in the background from which the lithology palettes may be configured by the user To load the palettes from the data base double click on the button of a palette item This will bring up a scrolling list of all the Lithologies in the data base and you may configure the palettes as desired for a particular project See the section Editing Lithologies This procedure also allows you to edit the pattern and cap tion of all of the lithologies however you should NOT change the captions of any of the pre existing hard rock lithologies Such changes may adversely affect the litholo
96. h this see the section Editing Icons Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Fossils 8 Grain Size Texture Porosity Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness Rock Color Hard Rock Structur Post depositional F Facies Environment 3B Stratigraphy Remarks E e Label Ge Photo at Sample 47s Depth Marker Thin Section 70 Sorting Roundness Choose Sorting Roundness from the Logging menu These items are logged as gray scale columns alongside the core schematic but are drafted on the strip log as line graphs To log select the desired item by clicking on one of the radio buttons from ei ther column Only one item at a time can be selected and all other buttons will be CORE 1 BOH 1 1486 28 feet 1476 00ft eehote turned off Then drag over the desired interval or dou 1481 00 ft Townhore ble click in a facies interval SORTING ROUNDNESS j Data is recorded when the u o u Bo Entr Poor Bo Very Angular A A fa BAO very Poor EO angular 1 tf ie cursor is in either the core Ho Poor Ho Subangular e n e i O Moderate J subroundea of fs schematic or the gray scale O Mod
97. he ground elevation and KB elevation remarks there is no limit to the amount of text that can be entered as header remarks If you type more than can be displayed use the vertical scrolling con trol at the right hand side to scroll through the text entry box Note that these re marks are optionally plotted only in the strip log header and are not the same as the depth related remarks you may record while logging core Note also that if you choose ODP Ocean Drilling Program configuration the Log Header window will have a slightly different appearance and terminology LOG HEADER Core Name Deg Minutes Deg Latitude la 8 8888 Longitude a _ a aae Date January 24 1999 Described by Water Depth Rig Floor to ea Level 6 68 Depths Recordedin feet meters Section Tall Section Depths Also the Remarks box is not accessible to the user and will be hidden As well as the preceding header data you must also configure the program for metric or imperial units The desired choice is made by clicking on the appro priate radio button either feet or meters This lets AppleCORE know which units the input depths are measured in Once you have set this button there should be no reason to ever change it for that file Changing it will NOT do any conversions or change the data in any way When drafting the strip log can optionally be plot ted in either meters or feet and in that operation Appl
98. he mineral The proportion of this component will be SE en eens Minerals with a trace proportion are You may enter anything less than this EN not summed in the total You may only enter integer percents decimals are not accepted The Mineral Selection Dialog may also contain extra fields to enter additional information about a mineral These dialog items will vary depending on the con text and if present are always at the bottom of the dialog window If the item is a Notepad button clicking on it will bring up a secondary data dialog requesting additional information 114 Mineral Description Dialog To access the Mineral Description Dialog select a mineral from the Mineral Component List and then click on the Notepad button or simply double click on the mineral name The Notepad will appear blank if there is no existing data for the selected mineral 50 Quartz trace Goethite 30 Alkali Feldspar 20 Plagioclase Add Mineral The Mineral Description Dialog may appear somewhat different depending on whether the lithology is igneous metamorphic altered or sulfide oxide Shown here is the Mineral Description Dialog for igneous lithology Component Mineral Lists This button will return to the Mineral Selection Dialog and allow you to change the mineral name Phenocryst Mineral Quartz
99. he sections dealing with the Logging Menu but you should find the graphical logging process quite intuitive after very little practice 15 The Strip Log Window The Strip Log window allows the user to preview the drafted strip log pro duced from the recorded data The strip log is drafted according to the format that is created in the Setup Format dialog selected under the Drafting item in the menu bar The Strip Log Window is not available under the Window menu and you cannot print until you have drafted the data If you change or add data the Strip Log window will be out of date and you must Redraft to update it You can draft up your data at any time You don t have to wait until the full core description is finished In fact it is usually a good idea to draft up the log early in the data collection process to see how it will appear at the desired scale You may find you are logging in too much detail for that scale The first time the Strip Log window appears it will fill the screen It can be resized by clicking in the icon in the lower right of the window and dragging TPPL Christina strip log TPPL Christina E 7 26 76 1204 Date logged January 14 1994 Logged by Mike Ranger Ground 669 95 m KB 673 00 m GRAIN SIZE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT J CLAY PERCENTAGE BIOTURBATION INTENSITY PHYSICAL STRUCTURES ACCESSORIES ICHNOFOSSILS HYDROCARB
100. hed strip log can be viewed and interpreted immediately after or even during the logging process The strip log can be printed out either in high resolu tion on a Laser printer such as Apple s LaserWriter or as a continuous strip log in colour or black and white on a dot matrix printer such as Apple s ImageWriter or on any other compatible printer The strip log can also be saved as a QuickDraw PICT file which can be imported into many Macintosh graphics applications CAD and desktop publishing programs This feature allows full editing and en hancement of the drafted strip log to personal taste on a variety of different com mercial software The Logging menus also act as a prompt while logging which encourages a thorough and systematic approach to a basically interpretive and deductive en deavour AppleCORE utilises the standard Macintosh graphic interface of icons and pull down menus and relies almost totally on the mouse for data input The keyboard is used only for text entry How this Manual is Organized Those users who are already familiar with the Macintosh can quickly get started using AppleCORE by reading through the QuickStart notes in the first few pages of this manual as well as the detailed descriptions of AppleCORE s three main windows that follow Comprehensive explanations of all of AppleCORE s func tions are organized under the same headings as the program s menu bar at the top of the screen
101. hen working with the Ee DOLOSTONE G oa palettes All are standard Macintosh dialog items aie Dolomitic Lst and will be familiar to those experienced with Radio buttons using the Macintosh There are three kinds of only one at a time is on dialog buttons Radio buttons and Check Box buttons allow you to choose options Action BT MTEREBEDDED buttons always have a consequence and perform a function Note that you can click Radio and Check buttons Check Box buttons anywhere in their titles You option on or off don t have to be careful about only targeting the FEH downhole Besides the menus in the menu bar at the top of the screen AppleCORE also uses many pop image of the button itself Action buttons up menus as a convenient way to choose items or modifiers from a palette Any text box that has a drop shadow behind it is a pop up menu To show the menu click and hold the mouse button with the cursor over the menu box Then move the cursor to the desired item and release the button The selected item becomes the current item Popup menu Bioturbated box with shadow Uncertain Gradational original item will remain the current Undulating Faulted item Inclined and will be placed in the pop up menu box If you release the button outside the menu no selection will be made and the Step by step instructions on how to Menu popped up use each of the palettes are detailed under t
102. her Y Options to bring up the second of the option dialogs Plot Mode allows you to select how the data points are connected on the graph For TRACK 1 example for gamma ray Setup Format Draft the Log 98 Curve 1 GAMMA RAY Curve 2 Porosity Analysis data you will want to sim Export as Pict File k a E i E E ply connect the data Show Page B Breaks 0 0O O 8 OO points However porosity Open Format Line Stye Line Style Save Format Solid O Solid analyses are typically plot O Dotted Dt Dotted o 4 Dashed Dashed D ted to represent an inter os vole Reet val and you can choose to rO Bulk Shift _ O Bulk Shift h h uphole tt uphole ft plot such data as a histo downhole non m SIL downhole 2 00 TENCE a gram line graph where the point variable represents either the middle or the beginning of an interval Another option is to plot the data as a bar graph You may also want to shift the plotted curve up or down to match the core log The Bulk Shift button allows you to do this in feet or meters To correct the core depths to a wireline log use the more flexible Depth Markers un der the Logging menu The line style and colour is important if you are plotting several curves Select different styles to differentiate the curves You can also choose to p
103. iately on starting the program if configured for logging core Once Box Tally information is entered from the header window or an existing data file is opened most of the menu items become activated Many menu items may also be selected from the keyboard by holding down the com mand 38 key while hitting another key i e a hot key New Log N The specific keyboard short cut for each item if one is avail keyboard shortcut able is listed after the item s title in the pull down menus One item under the menu contains an AppleCORE item About AppleCORE contains copyright information and also displays the amount of RAM memory remaining that is available to AppleCORE This information can be use ful if you have a large file open and are worried about running out of memory TDS APEA EPICS OR Ee otga Apple CORE by Mike Hanger also shows the current Custom version 6 7 59 Copyright 1989 1997 All rights reserved file see the section Custom Files FREE MEMORY IN BYTES 192128 Custom File Installed Standard Custom File ay 20 i ime Edit Special Logging Drafting Search Window The File Menu Initiating a New Log To start a completely new file select NeW Log from the menu This opens up a Log Header window see section The Log Header Window whose fields are all blank except for the present date which is automatically initialized When New Log is chosen fro
104. ide of the interval Lithologic Accessories are plotted on the left and Fossils or Ichnofossils in the center When plotted as intervals in the Icon columns AppleCORE attempts to space the items horizontally to avoid crowd ing However if space runs out some items may be excluded from the strip log In this case the symbol will appear at the right side of the column wherever an item has been excluded Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Open Format Save Format 93 Plot on Plot in Icon Column Lithology together separate Column columns Physical tructures O E O Lithologic Accessories EJ EJ O Ichnofossils O O E Fossils o O EJ Diagenesis Faulting plat together plot separate O Plot Major Items Onl GRAIN SIZE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES ACCESSORIES ICHNOFOSSILS Effects of the various options to plot symbol icon data Diagenesis and Fracture data cannot be plotted in the lithology column but appear only in a separate column as interval data This is also true for the Hard Rock Structures and the Oriented Core Flag as well as the Pore Types and Hydro carbon Shows An interval that is not long enough to accommodate the icon be tween a pair of arrowheads will be recorded as if it were point data and therefore FOSSILS the abundance line cannot be displayed unless the log scale is changed Setup Format
105. ile from the Special menu Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 53 Photo Sample and Remarks Files Logging Photo Sample and Remarks data allows the recording of comments ina text window Selecting either Create Photo File Create Sample File or Create Remarks File creates an ASCII text file that contains a table list ing the depths of all the photos samples or remarks along with the comments These files make it easy to cross reference your photos and samples with the core All word processing programs can open these files but note that you cannot open them by double clicking on the file icon from the Macintosh desktop Open the word processing program first and then open the file If it does not initially show up in the scrolling file list you probably have to set a button to allow the display of Text or Text Only files in the file list For reading into DOS Windows systems you A should name the file as a type txt Before the file is created a dialog will prompt you to choose between feet or metres and whether you wish core and box numbers FEET O METRES in the file If you have recorded D
106. ind To edit a lithology first select the item by clicking on its title in the list Then click on the Edit Selection button This will bring up a dialog window that will allow you to alter or create a lithology in the manner described above You entered the Master List by double clicking on an lithology button from a palette in the logging window and you can replace the original palette lithology by the one currently selected in the Master list by clicking on the Put in Palette button You can create a set of lithology patterns that you wish to use only for special Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 42 purposes This set of patterns can be saved in a separate file known as an AppleCORE Custom File You can then use this file to configure AppleCORE whenever you wish to use the special purpose patterns and then return to the default items after you finish the project See the following sections on installing and saving Custom Files for more information Custom Files are also valuable if you wish to exchange AppleCORE files with another user who does not have his copy of AppleCORE configured with the same lithologies and symbols that yo
107. ineral Every window that ap pears is a modal window This means that you must deal with that window s dialog and then close it before proceeding The user therefore proceeds up a hier 111 archy of data description dialogs that can be followed intuitively Data is recorded using the standard user interface of buttons pop up menus and selecting from lists AppleCORE also uses Notepad buttons which when clicked bring up the various dia NOTEPAD buttons open data description dialogs They change appearance once data has been collected for an item If data has been recorded in a di log windows for recording data alog its notepad button will ap i Al No data collected for this item Ax lim hasdata otherwise it appears blank This aids the user by visually indicat pear as if it has text on it ing where data has been collected and where data may be missing Immediately after you drag over an interval to record a hard rock lithology the Hard Rock Description Dialog will open automatically After you close this dialog window you can re open it at any time by holding down the Control but ton while clicking in the lithology interval When you hold down the Control but ton the screen cursor will be displayed as an eyedropper A indicating the data recovery function You may also switch off the automatic display of the Hard Rock Description Dialog This switch is in the Options item under
108. ing outside the interval covered by the BOH records occurred Note that although Record Type LTH Problem Depth 1510 00 the ASCII file format is rela If you choose to continue this record will be omitted tively simple and has few re Continue strictions it is not possible to anticipate all possible errors in the data and some files if formatted incorrectly may not read properly or may simply crash the program Technical information regarding the ASCII files is giv en in the Appendix to this manual New Log Open Log 0 Close Log W Save BS Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External Y Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 26 Exporting an ASCII file To create an ASCII file choose EXport as ASCII file from the File menu This creates a data file in a simple format that can be opened by any word proces sor and read in plain English A dialog box will first be displayed asking if you wish to have box and core numbers included in the file FEET C METRES and whether you want the depths listed in feet or me S E you have recorded Depth Markers you will also Wt Apply Depth Corrections have the option of correcting all the depths to the mark er depths The exported data file consists of a list of in terval depths and codes that represent the various data items that have been logged The ASCII file can then b
109. ions to any of the XY data curves For example if one of the curves is the wireline log to which you have correlated the driller s depths then obviously you don t want to apply the depth corrections to that curve However if one of the curves is porosity measurements from core analysis then you probably do want to apply the depth corrections to that curve If only one Depth Marker is recorded the entire core on the strip log will be bulk shifted by the difference between the Marker wireline Depth and the core driller s depth If more than one Depth Marker is recorded the depths will be corrected proportionally between the two or more markers by expanding or con densing the core on the strip log Logging Clastic Lithology 361 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct Y Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofassils 361 Fossils HF Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity K Hydrocarbon Indica H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color eR Hard Rock Structur 4M Post depositional F b Facies Environment 8 Stratigraphy Remarks E Ele Label Ga Photo Sa Sample Depth Marker Thin Section 84 Recording Thin Sections In the current version of AppleCORE Thin Section recording is only imple mented for detailed description of Hard Rock lithologies Thin Sections are recorded as point data Select Thin Section from the Logging menu The cursor will change to 6 When you click
110. ist all the data columns in the file and allow you to choose which to import Only one column of variables along with its depths can be imported at a time and the dialog will prompt you to indicate which data column is the depth and which is the variable First numeric Data Line Ae o aaa There are 2 data items on each line in this file 1505 5 42 3 Which Ytem is the Depth 1506 0 63 5 Ist 2nd 1506 5 87 5 1505 09 39 50 pee T Which Item is the Variable ree pee om Sa 1509 0 156 5 Depths represent Import this file as 1509 5 179 2 feet Data Set 1 C Data Set 5 1510 0 183 3 C metres Data Set 2 Data Set 6 1510 5 185 6 Data Set 3 O Data Set 7 1511 0 185 2 Data Set 4 Data Set 8 1511 5 160 8 Title Gamma Ray Proceed New Log Open Log 0 Close Log sl Save 3S Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 28 Importing Digital Images AppleCORE can display digital images in a separate window to aid in logging The image may be rotated in 90 increments clockwise or counterclockwise and scale it if desired You will require the QuickTime extension v 3 or higher in your System fold er in order to use the digital image viewer AppleCORE supports the following image file formats PICT TIFF GIF JPEG JFIF BMP PNG Targa QuickTime Image MacPaint Photo
111. itic Lst Oolitic Dolst scrolling menu containing all of the lithol Calcareous shale Dolomitic shale Find lime CII code number but you can find any item in the list using the Find function and entering any part of its title 4 m ogies They will be listed in order of AS When you have selected all the lithology components click in the Ternary Di agram or drag the indicator to choose the relative percent of each component You can select in increments of 5 Record the data on the schematic interval as you normally would The three components will be displayed vertically in proportion to its percent At this point in development AppleCORE will NOT plot the three components as an interbedded profile on the strip log The three components can only be dis played when the lithology is plotted with no profile Turn off the Profile but ton in the Setup Format dialog and turn on the Bedding Vertical button Erasing Lithologies To erase a lithology interval drag over or double click the interval while holding down the command key 4 You must be in one of the lithology palette windows Remember that to correct an error you can simply drag over the incorrect interval with a new lithology pattern Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Hard Rock Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Fossils
112. justed To change the plot order first draft the strip log Then hold down the Shift key and move the cursor into the column caption area at the top of the strip log The cursor will change to a hand icon amy and you may then click and drag the col umns into any desired order The strip log will redraft in the new column order y p 108 TPPL Christina EV T 26 7612w4 0 0 0000 H 0 0 0000 E DEPOSITIONAL COMPLEX 2 E a a a uw o a w 4 LL BlOTURE Fossils SORTING DESCRIPTION after each drag You must keep the Shift key depressed as you drag the columns into position To change a column width hold the Shift key down and move the cursor into the column caption area at the top of the strip log The cursor will change to a double direction arrow when positioned over a column boundary that can be adjust 17 ed otherwise it will appear as the hand icon Some columns cannot be adjusted Click and drag the column margin to the desired width A column width is adjust TPPL Christina EV 26 76 12w4 0 0 0000 N 0 0 0000 E CRAIN SIZE DEPOSITIONAL COMPLEX 2 7 itn ta a i w Z gt Ww GRAPHIC BIlOTURE STRUCTURE Fossils SORTING REMA RKS ed from its right hand margin The strip log will redraft to the new column width after each drag You must keep the Shift key depressed as you adjust the widths 18 The Image Viewer Window You may display digital images to
113. k Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Fossils Porosity Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness Rock Color Hard Rock Structur 1 2 3 Y A l F Grain Size Texture 36 K H T R M Post depositional F b Facies Environment B Stratigraphy Remarks E Ee Label E Fhoto RK Sample H Depth Marker Thin Section 61 usual situation But you may also wish to describe the relative percent of compo nents in a lithology This three component function can be used to help record cuttings where an interval is normally described by the occurrence of a number of lithologies An alternative use may be to describe carbonate rocks for example when you wish to record relative percents of matrix cement and allochems to do this you would have to create lithology patterns for cement and allochems Turn on the Ternary Diagram palette by clicking on the alternate palette but ton at the lower right of the lithology menu This button will toggle between the Ternary Diagram palette and the Standard Menu palette The icon in the button changes to indicate which palette it will bring up On the Ternary Diagram pal ette click the Select buttons to choose DOLOSTONE a lithology for each of the end points on the Dolomitic Lst Calcareous Dolst diagram You will be presented with a Ool
114. lected item now becomes the current contact Place the Bioturbated SA i f Uncertain contact at the appropriate position in the schematic by click Gradational ing the mouse button when the cursor is at or near the base of Undulatin Faulted i a facies The contact is always associated with the base of a Inclined facies interval If none is recorded the default contact on the Stylolite i Firmground drafted strip log will be a simple 1 pt line To erase a contact Hardground click on it while holding down the COMMAND key 3 Clay Percent clay is an optional logging item in the lithology palettes If its radio button and pop up menu are not present in the upper left side of the lithology pal ette you must first acti 7 26 76 12 8 vate Clay in the top 1476 08ft C asz J Options dialo un H 1481 66 ft 66 ft 8 der the Special menu Activating Clay will Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Hard Rock Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Fossils Porosity Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness Rock Color Hard Rock Structur 1 2 3 Y A l F Grain Size Texture 36 K H T R M Post depositional F b Facies Environment 3B Stratigraphy Remarks E Ee Label E Fhoto RK Sample H D
115. links the icon image to the re corded data When you record information graphically by dragging over an inter val only the ASCII code is actually recorded AppleCORE links the code to whatever the icon represents in your copy of the program For this reason you should not alter the MEANING of an icon without due consideration for the effects on all other logs that you have recorded In particular it is preferable not to change the mean ings of the original set of icons that are installed when AppleCORE is first opened These items are the most common items used to log sedimentary rocks and it will be easier to exchange files with other users if these are not altered Feel free to change the appearance of their icons however If you change an icon to mean something different than it originally did be aware that potential problems could arise For instance if you change rootlet ASCII code 296 to vertical trace fossil all previous logs on which rootlet has been recorded as ASCII code 296 will now show up as vertical trace fossil be cause you have changed the meaning of that code There are many empty icon positions in the palettes and you should not have to reuse the existing items You could however create a set of icons that you want to use only for special purposes for instance to log crystalline rocks This set of icons can be saved as part of a separate file known as a Custom file You can then load this file
116. ll cause anomalies to appear on the strip log The depths may be altered and corrected at any time If an error is made such that the recorded depths of any boxes overlap a warning will be issued when you attempt to draft the strip log Switching on Automatic Depth Increments can greatly facilitate the entry of the depths To use this feature enter the top and base of any box The pro gram computes the depth interval for that box Now as you move sequentially up or down through the boxes this same interval will be incremented in succeeding boxes The depths will not be incremented if any value has already been entered for either the top or base of a succeeding box Note that there is an optional method for recording the depths Instead of us ing the Box Depths dialog described here the depths may also be entered or changed directly in the Data Entry window see the following section 12 The Data Entry Window The Data Entry window can display several different palettes allowing the collection of many types of data The data entry palettes are accessible from the Logging menu in the main menu bar at the top of the screen The palettes all have Text Editing Boxes Control Buttons two items in common coe f Bowi f located at the right of bose _512 50m the screen and a control Facies Contact Bedding f O LIMESTONE E Cherty Lst E DOLOSTONE E O Cherty Dolst EH O Dolomitic Lst Chert Eza
117. lot the data points on the curve as a hollow or filled circle Click Other Options to bring up the third of the option dialogs This window allows the user to set the width of the track column on the strip log To Click and drag this line to alter the adjust the track width width of the column on the strip log click and drag the right TRACK 1 edge of the plot schemat Curve 1 GAMMA RAY Curve 2 Porosity Analysis Adjust Track Width change to a double arrow ic in red The cursor will default Tt bottom of the schematic aes min man are the preferred positions No of Scale Mvision 18 that will ensure the refer for linear scgle only Other RY Options CANCEL Cox The tick marks at the ence lines are equally spaced especially on low Tick marks indicate the preferred position when adjusting the column width resolution printers These ticks are recalculated 96 when the number of scale divisions is changed The number of divisions in the scale can be set by entering a number in the edit box Note that this does not refer to the number of reference lines The number of reference lines will be one less than the number of divisions If the curve is to be plotted ona logarithmic scale the refer ence lines will automatically be assigned The number of log cycles will depend default on the scale range selected Partial cycles are OK
118. m the File menu a dialog box will require that you to choose a configuration either Core or Qutcrop The Core option requires that you enter information through the Box Tally dialog button in the log header window before AppleCORE will allow you to begin logging data This in formation consists of the core numbers Choose Configuration Data Source Core Outcrop and the box numbers for each core When logging you are then constrained to mov ing uphole or downhole within the core intervals This is an advantage when log ging core directly in the lab because AppleCORE can then keep track of which core box is being logged and display it as an exact scaled schematic The BOX Depths information is not required before starting to record data however the strip log cannot be drafted until all depths are entered AppleCORE can also be used for logging of outcrop data Typically one may wish to transcribe field notes into AppleCORE format for easy drafting Instead of forcing you to enter the data as if it where collected from a series of drill cores AppleCORE can be configured to operate in a more generic manner by choos ing the Outcrop configuration Unlike the Core configuration the Dutcrop configuration does not use the Box Tally or Box Depths buttons The data entry window may be used imme diately and depths are entered directly from the Data Entry window There is no top or bottom limit imposed
119. me of these op tions must be selected before you start logging A few options are not yet imple mented in this version of AppleCORE and their buttons are permanently dimmed If AppleCORE is configured for outcrop data some of the options are not relevant and are not displayed The Top of BOX may be assigned to the upper left or upper right in the core box schematic The desired setting must be chosen before starting the data entry The ability to assign the lower left or lower right as the top of the box is not yet implemented in this version and those buttons are dimmed The number of columns of core per box may assigned here The only options available at present are either one or two columns The other options 3 4 5 or 6 columns are not yet implemented and their buttons are dimmed Here again the appropriate setting must be chosen before starting to enter data Note that when one column is chosen a fat single column is displayed and allows more room Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave AutoSave Preferen gt 37 for recording data The Logging Menu Options allow you to turn off the display of some items in the logging window in order to remove clutter caused by
120. n Indica 3H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color eR Hard Rock Structur mM Post depositional F b Facies Environment 8 Stratigraphy Remarks E e Label Ga Photo ea Sample 3s Depth Marker Thin Section 80 Text Entry Menu Items Written comments and remarks may be added to the stratigraphic description at any time in the Data Entry window by using one of four text entry items These items are accessed by selecting from the four items under the Logging menu Remarks Label Photo and Sample and each is associated with an icon in the menu Remarks items can be displayed in a remarks column on the strip log The Photo and Sample items allow you to record the position at which photos and samples where taken as well as to record notes about them A list of the pho to notes or sample notes can be created for later reference see the section on Pho to Files and Sample Files Label is operational but the text it records is neither drafted on the strip log nor written to a file and thus the text is only accessible from the Data Entry window It acts as a post it note while logging To record a remark select Remarks from the Logging menu There is no immediate effect however you will notice that the cursor now becomes a pencil when moved over the column Window Go Away Box schematic Click the mouse button m Core Number 1 Box Number 1 Top of Viking A Gas bubbles in mud
121. n the strip log You could also try drafting without a profile available under the Setup Format dialog window Or of course the best solution is to update your printer and or your printer driver software The drafted strip log is not automatically updated whenever new data is add ed If the log has already been drafted and then changes are made to the data or the drafting format the strip log will have to be redrafted to incorporate the changes Note It is good practice to SAVE your work before drafting a strip log Setup Format Draft the Log Ex i i Open Format Save Format 102 Saving the Strip Log as a Graphic Image File The drafted strip log can be saved as a PICT file A PICT file is generic Mac intosh graphic file that can be opened by many other Macintosh graphics applica tions such as Canvas and ClarisDraw This allows the user to edit and enhance the log using the very powerful drawing tools available in these packages It is pos sible for instance to combine the strip log with maps or other relevant graphics for a presentation poster or to import several AppleCORE logs to create a cross sec tion To save the strip log as a PICT file select Save as PICT from the Draft ing menu A dialog box will ask the user to provide a file name Note that the PICT file cannot subsequently be opened by AppleCORE To import the PICT file to another graphics application
122. nal Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 24 Importing ASCII Files AppleCORE s normal data files are stored as binary machine code and are not easily transferred to other platforms However AppleCORE can also read and write data files in a generic text format known as ASCII code These ASCII files can be opened by all word processing and spreadsheet programs and are therefore read able in plain English These files can also be easily transferred to DOS Windows environments Using this vehicle AppleCORE files can be downloaded for trans fer to other databases or for input to statistical packages for example Or you may have existing lithologic data in a specific format that you wish to import into AppleCORE to draft up The ASCII file provides the bridge to accomplish this The AppleCORE ASCII data file is a very simple format consisting of interval depths and code numbers representing the various data items A full description of the ASCII file format can be found in the Appendix to this manual To import an ASCII file choose Import ASCII File from the File menu This in effect is the same as choosing Open Log except that the data are stored in a different format When the ASCII file is read in its data are converted to the regular AppleCORE internal format with the title Untitled To save the file to disk as a regular AppleCORE file simply choose Save from the menu and a dia log
123. ned off by selecting AutoS ave from the Special menu If there is a check mark next to its title when you pull down the Special menu it is on Selecting it simply toggles it on or off The only reason to turn it off is that you may find the unexpected delay while it automatically saves the backup somewhat annoying The time required to do the backup is the same as when you save the file It depends on the size of the data and the speed of your computer but is typically only a few seconds at most If you find frequent backup delays annoying you can set the backup inter val to a longer time using the AutoSave Preferences dialog described in the next section If the disk that contains your System folder is almost full there may not be enough space to create the backup but in that case you need to do some housekeeping anyway Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil AutoSave AutoSave Preferen 55 For safety you should still periodically save your data manually And you must save your data before closing the file you will be prompted to do so because the backup file is deleted when you exit normally Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types
124. ng up each of the palettes The 12 palettes contain spaces for a total of 192 items and you can load these in any configuration you wish from a master list of up to 384 items that resides in the background See the section on Editing Lithologies for more information on loading the palettes To record a lithology interval first select a lithology by clicking and releasing the mouse when the cursor is over the desired lithology button Then move the cursor over to the core or interval schematic The cursor will change from an ar row to a cross hairs Click the mouse button at the top or bottom of the interval and while holding the button down move the cursor to the end of the desired interval and release the button Repeat the process if the interval continues on to the other side of the core box or on to another interval since only one column can Logging Hard Rock Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Fossils Grain Size Texture Porosity Hydrocarbon Indica Sorting Roundness Rock Color Hard Rock Structur Post depositional F Facies Environment Stratigraphy Remarks EW Label E Fhoto RK Sample H Depth Marker Thin Section 58 be recorded at a time To fill the entire column interval click the mouse button outside the top or bottom of the column and then drag the mouse along
125. ng buttons to Add the text to the list or to Replace the currently selected shaded item in the list with your new text To delete an item from the list select Logging Clastic Lithology 361 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofassils 361 Fossils F Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity eK Hydrocarbon Indica H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color eR Hard Rock Structur 4M Post depositional F b Facies Environment 8 Stratigraphy Remarks E Ele Label Ga Photo ee Sample 4 Depth Marker Thin Section 79 it by clicking on it and then click the Delete button The lists are saved with the program To record a stratigraphic interval on your log make sure the desired item Pe riod Age Formation or Group is the current item by clicking its radio button Make sure the text you wish to record is that displayed in the text editing box Then you can record the text in the standard way by dragging the cursor over an interval in the core schematic or by double clicking in an interval The text will appear rotat ed on the schematic and centered between two arrowheads To erase intervals click on the text while depressing the command key 4 The interval in the core schematic may not be long enough to plot all the text In this case it will be truncated to fit in the space available The full text is record ed internally however and
126. ng intervals if the lithologies are the same If a break is desired at the column boundary place a facies contact at the bound ary by clicking the selected contact near the boundary Place a facies contact by first choosing one from the pop up menu Switch on the Facies Contact button if it is not already on Then place the contact by clicking once in the core schematic on or near the facies boundary You can only place contacts at the base of a recorded facies interval To place a bound ary within an existing interval first divide that interval by dragging the mouse from the desired boundary position to either end of the existing interval Then click the contact into the new boundary All of the available palettes are accessed by clicking on the small icons at the lower left of the lithology menu to bring up pages one to four of the lithology items A total of 64 lithologies are available for each of clastics and carbonates and these may all be customised from the Special menu or by simply dou ble clicking on their buttons which opens the edit dialog window To record interbedded lithologies choose the primary lithology with inter bedded turned off Then click interbedded on and select the secondary li thology The and bedding thickness are pop up menus and are recorded along with the interbedded lithology Two palettes of icons are available for each of the Structures Access
127. nge the depth You can also change the position of the Depth Marker by dragging its icon while holding down the shift key To de lete a Depth Marker click on the icon while holding down the command 3 but ton A warning will appear before you are permitted to delete a marker How Depth Markers Work Core Corrected to Reference Log Original Wireline Reference Log Ro i eference Log e g Gamma Ray Uncorrected Core A Log 9 Place AppleCORE Markers f Correlations Depth Markers 461 offset 462 463 1 463 1 463 expanded 464 6 Sere 466 8 EPERE E E 466 8 compressed 468 75 Logging Clastic Lithology 361 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofassils 361 Fossils F Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity eK Hydrocarbon Indica H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color R Hard Rock Structur mM Post depositional F b Facies Environment B Stratigraphy Remarks E Ele Label ca Photo xe Sample Depth Marker Thin Section 83 Once you have recorded the Depth Markers you have the option of drafting the strip log with or without the depth corrections Turn depth corrections on under the Scale Options of the Setup Format dialog under the Drafting menu Click on Apply Depth Marker Corrections Here you also have the option to apply the depth correct
128. nhole one box at a time use page down or the down arrow key 4 Go To Top Go To Base GoTo 107 File Edit Special Logging Drafting Search Window The Window Menu Moving Between Windows The AppleCORE interface consists of four main windows the Log Header Window the Data Entry Window the Strip Log Window and the Image Viewer Window These are described in detail in the section The Windows To bring up the desired window choose from the Window menu The Strip Log window cannot be displayed until a log is drafted and its menu entry will be dimmed until then Similarly Image Viewer is dimmed until an image is opened The Log Header window is only displayed on opening or when specifically cho sen from the Window menu otherwise it is closed and hidden from view when any other window is frontmost You can move between windows by simply click ing the mouse button when the cursor is inside a window Choosing any item from the Logging menu will immediately bring up the Data Entry window The Data Entry Strip Log and Image Viewer windows can be moved around the screen by dragging their title bars If you have a large screen it is sometimes useful to have them showing together The Strip Log and Image Viewer windows can be resized by dragging its resize icon located in the small box in the lower right of window The Data Entry window cannot be resized and is designed to fit on any Macintos
129. o include the item ASCII codes in the legend However this option can be useful if you export AppleCORE data as ASCII files All of the ASCII codes for the standard icon items and lithologies are listed in the Appendix to this manual However if your log includes any customised items plotting a legend that includes the ASCII numbers will facilitate your in terpretation of the exported ASCII file Header Options HEADER OPTIONS b4 well Name The Header Options button al MA Location ETA lows the user to configure the strip log pA Elevations header as desired Choose any item by A Remarks 9 pt EA Border clicking it on The header space will ex pand to accommodate the length of the mE Setup Format Draft the Log 3 Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format 90 header remarks A 2pt border line will be drawn around the strip log if Bor der is turned on Page Margins Page margins for the strip log printout can be specified from the Page Mar gins button The margins can be specified in inches or centimetres Note that mar PAGE MARKING gins of 0 0 will default to the maximum plot size allowable on the selected print Left 1 5 PRR i er This always produces some minimum Right 6 68 cm Top 8 88 inches margin depending on the printer Note Bottom 6 66 also that the specified margins m
130. o reuse the existing items special Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave AutoSave Preferen 43 Editing Icons All of the symbols icons used by AppleCORE to represent data items can be customised and you can create new items if required Not all of the available icon items can be shown on the logging palettes at one time Each palette window can display 48 icons and by clicking the alternate button gt in the lower left of the palette window you can display an additional 48 for each of Physical Structures Lithologic Accessories Fossils Diagenesis and Fractures The Ichnofossil palette has only 30 30 icon positions However many more items are available in the background and are accessible from the Master List Any position in an icon palette can be loaded with any item from its Master List Therefore the appear ance of the working palettes can be customised as desired The icons themselves are customised or created from the Master List To access the Master List click on Edit Icon Master List A submenu Structures will appear from which you can select the desired Lithologic Accessor Ichnofossils Master List You can also access
131. oSave off is not advisable however Read the previous section for more information about AutoSave Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Colorize Selected F v Show Facies Colors Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File v Auto Save Auto Save Prefere 57 File Edit Special npn Drafting Search Window The Logging Menu Clastic Carbonate and Hard Rock Lithology Menu Items The three lithology menu items Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithol ogy and Hard Rock Lithiology record specific lithologic intervals facies in tervals The carbonate display may also include evaporites Bring up the lithology logging windows by selecting them from the Lagging menu You have a choice of one of 4 palettes of lithologies for each of siliciclastics carbonates and hard rock EEE 7 26 76 12 8 1486 68 CORE 1 BOH 1 top 1476 0a ft _wekoie base 1481 66 ft Facies Contact BPR hep C 90 SAND SANDSTONE 4 sandy shale clay claystone aa organic shale i coal conglomerate matrix supported NO PHserved silty sand shaly sand SILT SILTSTONE sandy silt clayey silt SHALE MUDSTONE grain supported silty shale breccia O Empty Bos Space Lost Core qUe2Z 93 4 Click on pages 1 to 4 at the lower left hand corner of the logging window to bri
132. og is variable depending on the format you set up Therefore the remarks are wrapped around to fit the column width This means that you should avoid trying to format the text in the text window by adding spaces or tabs etc Most probably this effort will be futile because of the text wrapping and the result will be text that looks very un even on the drafted log Line returns are OK and will cause a skip to a new para graph But remember that for Remarks what you see on data entry is not necessarily what you get on the strip log The Samples text window also has a pop up menu from which you can record the Sample Type i e thin section palynology X ray analysis etc The Sam ple Types can then be plotted in a separate column on the strip log using a three character abbreviation If you o Core Number 1 Box Number 1 Sample Type _Sample general z hold down the option key before Sample taken for thin section examination for diagenetic history R clicking on the menu the sample code abbreviation will be dis played on the pop up menu as well as the full caption The pop up menu is fully customisable You can change the items in the menu and create new ones from Edit Sample Types under the Options menu For instruction on how to accomplish this see the section Editing The Sample Types To delete a text entry item click on the icon while holding down the command 38 button A
133. ogram with your customised graphics There is no limit to the number of Custom files that can be created The default set of lithology patterns and icons is the configuration of AppleCORE as originally shipped and is included on your original disk as a locked Custom file It should remain locked so that it can t be changed allowing you to configure your version Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Sh Facies Col Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 51 of AppleCORE back to the original if required The currently installed Custom file is always shown in the About AppleCORE dialog under the apple menu Custom files have several important uses You may wish to create a special version of the lithologies and icons only for working with evaporites for instance or perhaps soils First you would save your existing configuration as a custom file so that you can reload it later You might perhaps call this file NORMAL_CONFIG Then create the special items you require using the Edit Lithology and Edit Icon functions and save them as another Custom file This file you might call EVAP CONFIG When you are finished working with EVAP CONFIG you would reload NORMAL CONFIG to return AppleC
134. on the sequence of intervals as there is for core data You can go up or down the sequence entering data with no restraints There is actually a finite limit on the number of intervals that can be recorded i e 500 000 up and 500 000 down In Outcrop mode the core box schematic is displayed as a single column representing the interval given by the top and base elevations The interval can represent any length and need not be a constant interval up and down the succession You could for instance let each schematic interval repre Open Log Close Log Save 3S Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External Y Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 21 sent a single described facies interval in your stratigraphic succession When the strip log is drafted all the intervals will be scaled to the designated log scale In Outcrop mode other cosmetic items such as some menu titles are changed from core nomenclature to simple stratigraphic references For instance the up hole and downhole buttons become simply up and down The data entry palettes may also have a slightly different appearance in outcrop configuration The Lost Core item becomes Covered Interval while the Empty Box Space item is removed as irrelevant Core and box numbers are of course not displayed In stead the space is occupied by the automatic elevation increment check box If
135. oned to the lithology or lost core in tervals only and the schematic can exactly mimic the actual core box No gap will appear on the strip log when it is drafted up If you do not record Box Space but leave a blank space in the schematic AppleCORE will assign depths to the inter val and a gap will appear on the strip log Over a Box Space interval the cursor depths will not update and the depths will be correctly updated over the remainder of the core box schematic NOTE HOWEVER that the cursor depths can only update properly if the Box Space interval is directly at the top or base of any column interval The strip log will still be drafted correctly however regardless of where the Box Space interval is placed Recording Lithologic Components with the Ternary Diagram AppleCORE also permits the entry of three lithologic components over an in terval You may use this to record three interbedded lithologies probably an un CORE 1 TE 3 1516 15 feet top 1515 88 ft 3 66 ft base man 58 ft 58 js AND SANDSTONE Component percent indicator Drag the indicator dot to set the Alternate Palette Button relative percent of the components Click to return to the Clicking anywhere in the Ternary Standard lithology menu Diagram will reset the indicator to ihat position Click to select the lithology for each end point of the ternary diagram Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Hard Roc
136. ories Trace Fossils and Fossils Click the double arrow button at the lower left to alter nate between the two palettes However many more icon items are available from a Master List from which you can load the palettes Call up the master list to customise an icon item and alter the working palette by double click ing on the icon position in the palette You can also call up the master list and customise the icons from the Special menu but you can only alter your work ing palette by the double click method Many data palettes have an erase button All other data items can be erased by dragging or clicking with the command key 3 held down QuickStart If you find that too many icons are cluttering up the schematic column making it difficult to place new items you can temporarily hide all icons except those from the active menu by holding down the option key Pore Types and Hydrocarbon Indicators are selected from pop up menus Customise the items and the appearance of the pop up menu from the Special menu Move uphole and downhole quickly from the keyboard by using the cursor up 1 and cursor down J keys With the extended keyboard the page up and page down keys do the same thing The home and end keys take you to the top and the base respectively When recording Facies and Depositional Environments or Stratigraphy what ever is in the text edit box with the blinking cursor
137. over the item l vera AS aie The selected item now becomes the current value very pale p purplish Purple pale j reddish Red oe may also record a PTPR ntholesy cou very dusky yellowish vetow if for instance you are logging an interbedded in k m otuea terval Turn on Secondary Lithology by click I ing its button and then select the colour from the pop up very deep menus Primary and secondary are logged together To log colour drag the cursor over the desired interval or double click in a li thology interval The data are recorded in a column alongside the core schematic and consist of an interval delineated by arrowheads with the rock colour plotted CORE 1 BOH 2 E 1512 50 ft 1515 00 ft downhole COLOR sir as an abbreviation in the middle of the interval If a secondary lithol ogy colour is recorded it is plotted intensity modifier hue light yellowishe Brown Primary Lithology dk gy GN below the primary colour The ab ItyeBR med GY breviations should be obvious but intensity modifier hue medium gt m Gray m B Secondary Lithology see the key in the appendix To erase intervals click on the colour l code while depressing the com mand key 38 The GSA Rock Colour Chart is distributed by The Geological Society of America 3300 Penrose Place P O Box 9140 Boulder Colorado 80301 U S A
138. p log will be redrafted with the new configuration 106 File Edit Special Logging Drafting search The Search Menu Navigating Through the Schematic Data Using the Search menu you can move quickly through your recorded data without clicking sequentially uphole or downhole to find a specific depth or box To go immediately to the top or base of the log select Go To Top or Go To Base from the menu To quickly go to a specific depth or box select Go To from the menu This will bring up a dialog box from which you can search for either a depth or a spe cific core and box Choose one or the other by clicking Go To Depth 0 00 Core 2 Bou 3 aay a radio button and entering either a depth or core and box numbers in the appropriate box Click OK to pro ceed with the search If the box is found the search window will close and AppleCORE will immediately display the desired schematic If the box or depth doesn t exist the search dialog window will remain on the screen and you will get the message Not Found Click Cancel to close the di alog If you have an extended keyboard some of the navigation functions can du plicated by certain keys The home key will take you to the top of the log and the end key will take you to the base To go uphole one box at a time you can use either the page up key or the up arrow key T To go dow
139. pen and fill the screen This allows you to record detailed descriptive information about the lith Rock Type Primary Mineralogy Igneous Metamorphic Altered Sulfide Sulfate Oxide Phenocrysts Groundmass SO Quartz trace Alkali Feldspar 30 Alkali Feldspar 20 Plagioclase trace Goethite 2 Add Mineral Phaneritic fine grain Crystallinity Uoids gA Other a open Fractures Texture Fabric A Texture Non Fragmental BA Secondary Alteration None Fresh Data Base Name Rhyolite Lithology Name Logger Descriptive Name Dog s breakfast Comments General thology comments i J ca o Non editable Lithology name determined by running the KEY Free form editable Lithology name ology The first window you will see is the Hard Rock Description Dialog which is the entry to an hierarchy of data entry windows For instance in the Hard Rock Description Dialog you can record the mineralogy of the rock Adding a mineral will bring up a dialog that allows you to select the mineral name and proportion Then by double clicking on the mineral name recorded in the list you can bring up another dialog window that allows you to record detailed information about that mineral This dialog in turn may allow you to select a set of overgrowth or inclusion minerals associated with the primary m
140. pes Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 44 list by clicking on the Put in Palette button To quickly find an item in the list click on the Find button This will bring up a dialog window from which you can specify a piece of text to search for Al ternately you can search for a specific ASCII code or sort code If you then click OK the Master List will scroll to Search for imbrication in Code ASCH number Quite GAI the first occurrence of the search term Cancel It will however search only from the currently selected item down to the end of the list To search the entire list first scroll to the top of the list and click on the first item and then click Find To edit an icon first select the item by clicking on its title in the list Then click on the Edit Selection button This will bring up a dialog window that will allow you to alter or create an icon its title and its sort code To draw the icon click squares on or off in the 30 x 30 fat bits window It is advisable to keep the icon as small as possible otherwise the core interval sche matic can become very cluttered Preview window ASCII Number 663 while logging The icons can be edited at any time without harm
141. r initially selects a specific rock type from the palette but then subsequently provides a description that would classify it as a different rock type Therefore it is not a critical decision what rock type the user initially chooses from the palette AppleCORE will correct it if necessary Of course as described earlier in this sec tion the user can always override the Key by manually selecting from the litholo gy list in the Key dialog 122 Recording Hard Rock Thin Sections Recording data for Thin Sections is very similar to the Hard Rock description function It has exactly the same hierarchy of data description dialogs The main difference is the entry to the main Description Dialog Thin Sections are recorded as point data Select Thin Section from the Logging menu The cursor then becomes across hairs amp when moved over the column schematic When you click Sample ID MJA 999 Described by J Doe Rock Type Primary Mineralogy Igneous Phenocrysts Groundmass O Metamorphic 10 Quartz 5 Altered 80 Alkali Feldspar 10 Amphibole Crystallinity Phaneritic fine grain A Hod Mineral A Uoids Texture Fabric ean 2 Texture Non Fragmental A Secondary Alteration None Fresh A Microscopic Structures Lithology Name Logger Descriptive Name Data Base Name Alkali Feldspar Quartz Trachyte
142. r and Column Widths Setup Format Draft the Log Export as Pict File Show Page Breaks Open Format Save Format 100 Drafting the Strip Log To produce a strip log select Draft The Strip Log from the menu Draft ing is a complex process and there will be a delay of several seconds before the strip log appears on the screen Drafting time depends on the amount of data you have collected the drafting options you have chosen and of course on the speed of your computer AppleCORE checks for ambiguities in the recorded box depths such as overlapping depths and missing entries If a problem is found drafting will be aborted and you will be advised of the nature of the problem and where it occurs The graphic image of the strip log is also the biggest user of program memory If AppleCORE runs out of memory while creating the image it will warn you and abort the drafting Drafting at a smaller scale or in black and white or a restricted interval will use somewhat less memory otherwise you will have to shut down AppleCORE and assign more memory to it under Get Info in the system File menu before you can see the drafted strip log You can assign as much memory as you have RAM installed in your computer more if virtual memory is turned on Running out of memory is rare however and should not happen unless your log contains an extremely large amount of data There is a limit to the length of
143. re and box model Therefore the Box Tally and Box Depths buttons do not exist in the Log Header window and the control box does not indicate core and box numbers You 13 may move up or down with no limits and depths are recorded only in the top and base text editing areas of the control box The Automatic Elevation Increments button appears in the control box in outcrop mode When this button is on AppleCORE computes the thickness interval for the current schematic It will then set the top and base of succeeding schematic intervals by cumulating or subtracting the computed value as you move sequentially up or down through the schematics Automatic incrementation will not occur if any value has already been entered for either the top or base of a succeeding box Recording data from core is accomplished by entering information so that the schematic core box graphically duplicates the actual core You choose patterns and symbols icons from the palettes by clicking on them with the mouse button That item becomes the cur Selected item Cursor depth Selected item clicked in place rent item and you i 1511 71 43 core 1 f pou 1 O record it in the core sche Fall can top 510 0dm matic using only the base 512 5 m downhole mouse by clicking the mouse button or drag ging over an interval in the schematic with the mouse button held down As you move the
144. rent printer on your system Do this by selecting Chooser under the menu and click on the correct icon for your printer All the printer drivers should be easily identi fied by their icon and title Also be certain that all cables are tightly connected For additional information about printing refer also to Page Setup in the previous section Possible printing problems are also discussed under the sec tion Drafting the Strip Log New Log Open Log 0 Close Log 38W Save 3S Save as Import ASCII file Esport as ASCII file Import External Y Data Import Digital Image Page Setup 33 Quitting The Program When finished using the AppleCORE program select Quit If your work has not been saved a warning dialog will alert you to the fact and give you a chance to save Do not simply turn off the Macintosh to quit the program or you will lose all the data you have entered since the last time you saved New Log Open Log 0 Close Log 38W Save 3S Save as Import ASCII file Esport as ASCII file Import External Y Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 34 File iit Special Logging Drafting Search Window The Edit Menu The Edit menu contains the standard items Cut Copy and Paste which are used in the standard way for text processing on the Macintosh For example when editing Remarks select a pi
145. rforming this procedure but is not necessary Repeat this procedure for each Facies Environment item you wish to colourize on the scrolling lists To plot the strip log using the facies colours make sure the strip log is setup to plot in colour as follows Bring up the Setup Format dialog from the Draft ing menu Click the COLOUR Options button and then choose Colour Plot Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen 50 Custom Files When AppleCORE saves its data to disk files it only saves a list of numeric codes that represent the various data items These codes are referred to throughout this manual as the ASCII codes ASCII is a common standard for representing reada ble characters from the configuration of bits in a byte None of the graphic ele ments such as icons or lithology patterns are saved in an AppleCORE file When AppleCORE opens a file it associates the ASCII codes with the graphic elements which are stored as a table of resources within the program itself If you alter an icon or a lithology you are making changes to a graphic entry in the resource ta ble but the ASCII code never changes and no element of the recorde
146. ries The depth display can also be set to show the driller s depths as recorded in the Box Depths Display Total Depth or canbe set to show the distance below the top of each schematic interval Display Column Depth With this option the top of each schematic column will display as 0 0 This allows you to precisely place features by simply measuring down from the top of a column of core Either British or American spelling can be selected for major divisions 4 minor n ticks all text displayed in AppleCORE e g colour color metres meters a The Box Schematic Scale Bar can be turned on or off intermediate ticks and customised as desired Typically one would want to set the divisions to reflect the box length and the units of meas co urement used The scale bar is displayed only to assist the logger in recording intervals and has no effect on the data Options Edit Icon Master List Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Install Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave fAutoSave Preferen Edit Selected Lithol gt Show Facies Colours Save As Custom File 39 recorded If you are using AppleCORE to view or collect data for the ODP Ocean Drill ing Program click on ODP Configuration You must restart AppleCORE before this configuration takes effect ODP
147. riginal item in the menu by clicking on Replace Menu Item and choosing the menu item to replace You could also simply create a new menu item from the Edit Box by selecting Insert New Type Note in the dialog window the list of illegal characters that may not be used in amenu caption AppleCORE will not allow you to type these characters The Mac system interprets these characters as style flags for menu text To remove an item from the current menu click the mouse cursor in the De lete Menu I tem box Hold the mouse button down to display the pop up menu Notice that the cursor will change to oy while the menu is open If you select an item by releasing the mouse button with the cursor over the menu entry it will immediately be removed from the list If you release the mouse button outside the menu nothing will be changed Options v AutoSave Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil fAutoSave Preferen Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt 49 Facies Colours Facies and depositional environment col umns on the drafted strip log can be displayed with a coloured background This enhances the visual interpretation of the strip log by high LITHOFACIES ASSOCIATION DEPOSITIONAL ENY IRONMENT DEPOSITIONAL COMPLEX wo 2
148. ry and the Strip Log window is used for data display The Image Viewer Window allows display of digital images to aid in logging Each of the windows can be accessed from the Window item in the menu bar The Log Header window is used to enter descriptive and configuration data about the well or stratigraphic section This is typically information that you would expect to see on the strip log header hence the name In Core configuration there are two buttons in the lower right of this window labelled the Box Tally button and the Box Depths button which are used to record the number of cores and the number of boxes in each core as well as their depths The Log Header win dow disappears when not in use The Data Entry window is used to graphically record the descriptive data It has anumber of different palettes and therefore it changes its appearance some what depending on the type of data that is being recorded The different data palettes are selected from the Logging item in the menu bar When you choose one of the logging palettes the Data Entry window will be made the frontmost window if it isn t already You can change the position of the Data Entry win dow on the screen but you cannot alter its size The Strip Log window is a scrolling window that displays the drafted strip log No data can be entered from the Strip Log window The Strip Log window can be resized and its position on the screen may be moved
149. ry problems The total length of the strip log is limited to about 11 5 meters 38 ft If the scale would produce a strip log longer than this you will get a warning message If this happens you must change to a smaller scale or draft the log in shorter intervals Click on Core No s and or BOX NO S to display the Core and Box inter Drafting Setup Format Draft the Log Open Format Save Format Export as Pict File 86 vals in a separate column on the strip log The scale Options button brings up a dialog window with additional choic es Depths and tick marks can be plotted on the scale bar at any desired interval SCALE OPTIONS The intervals you enter are in 4 Show Depth Scale Column r Depth Label Orientation Hoterene aleak the same units feet or me La 30 Depth Label Interval 1 8 ters that you choose to plot 128 Plot Horizontal the strip log The depth cap te Plot Vertical E i Tick Mark Interval 8 2 Apply Depth Marker Corrections r Datum but don t correct KB tions may be plotted hori zontally or vertically and HY Data Set 1 S8Ma aay oe One HY Data Set 2 atitied 2 Top of Core HY Data Set 3 Gatitied 3 you can choose to annotate HY Data Set 4 Patitied 4 HY Data Set 5 2 HY Data Set 6 HY Data Set 7 2H HY Data Set 8 the dep
150. s O Diagenesis Relative Bioturb O Fractures O Sorting CO Hard Rk Structures O Roundness L Thin Sections O Consolidation O Photos O Fissili Fissility O Oriented Core Flag O Clay Percent C Rock Color O Core Disturbance Contacts Options DA HY Track 1 Grain Size O Track 2 Options C Texture LEGEND Options z OHY Track 3 Options C Sample Types ntions C HY Track 4 Options O Alteration Intensity A Remarks Options Set Interval O Facies Envir Options SCALE Meters Feet Scale 1 50 08 W Core No s MM Section No s LITHO COLUMN M Plot with Profile C Bedding Vertical W Lost Core CExport Options K Stratigraphy ptions COLOR Options CANCEL of the Options buttons also brings up additional windows that provide more choices for the user to customise the strip log Dimmed items are not available choic es The strip log configuration is saved when the data are saved so that the format will be recreated each time the file is opened and the log drafted The format may also be saved as a Format File so that you can easily apply the same format for instance to all core strip logs in a multi well project Scale The log may displayed in feet or meters and the scale must be specified as a ratio Almost anything reasonable can be entered here but extremely large scales may cause memo
151. s lost If there is not enough room to plot the data on the strip log AppleCORE first tries to split the text at a word break and plot it on two lines If there is still not enough room the text is truncated and 2 dots are placed at the end of the text to indicate the truncation If the scale you choose for the strip log is too small such truncations may be common In these situations coloured text items are useful as a key to the recorded items Alterna tively there is an option in the strip log format Setup Format under the Drafting menu to display all the recorded facies environment text items as well as their assigned colour as part of the legend This can help interpret any truncat ed items Logging Clastic Lithology 361 Carbonate Lithology 2 Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofassils 361 Fossils HF Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity K Hydrocarbon Indica H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color eR Hard Rock Structur 4M Post depositional F ld Facies Environment 8 Stratigraphy Remarks E Ele Label Ga Photo se Sample 4 Depth Marker Thin Section 78 Stratigraphy A hierarchy of stratigraphic remarks can be recorded by selecting Stratig raphy from the Logging menu You can record short descriptions max 31 char acters of four items by default Period Age Formation and Group These are plotted on the strip log in vertical col
152. s up in the schematic and on the strip log with solid black arrowheads while the other or subordinate items have white arrowheads The Ichnofossil Palette top 1476 66 ft uphoie base 1481 06 ft Ichnofossils are recorded Abundant in the same way as other icon items However the palette in RELATIVE BIOTURBATION Bo Abundant Common Moderate cludes an additional logging function to record the relative degree of bioturbation in gen Rare Ko Barren Jo Erase eral Relative bioturbation is Selected ae recorded and displayed as Logging Clastic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofassils 361 Fossils F Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity K Hydrocarbon Indica H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color eR Hard Rock Structur 4M Post depositional F b Facies Environment 8 Stratigraphy Remarks E Ele Label Ga Photo ea Sample 4 Depth Marker Thin Section 66 gray scale intensity in a separate column alongside the core schematic To log rel ative bioturbation select one of the radio buttons This will turn off the currently selected icon Then drag over the desired interval or double click in a facies inter val Data is recorded when the cursor is in either the core schematic or the gray scale column Logging Clas
153. set a relatively wide track Also you must set the scale range yourself The Full Data Range option is not available for cumulative plots and will be dimmed out Porosity The porosity Options button brings up POROSITY PLOT OPTIONS a dialog window that allows the user to plot A AE EAN E porosity as a qualitative gray scale column or Draft Percent Porosity Line Graph as a line graph when numeric data has been Scale oto 45 recorded The line graph may be plotted with an upper scale range of 15 30 45 60 or 100 Select the scale from the pop up menu Remarks Remarks are plotted in a column by default at the right side of the strip log By default this column is variable in width depending on the width of the page The remarks column expands in width to fill the page However there are built in lim its If the remarks column would be excessively wide only part of the page width is used for aesthetic reasons If the column would be too narrow the image is ex tended laterally onto a second page to accommodate a reasonable width and the plot will have to be spliced To avoid splicing in such cases try changing the de fault page orientation from portrait to landscape orientation see the section Page Setup 98 If the default width is unsuitable you can manually adjust the column width by dragging the right border of the column header on the strip log while holding
154. sh desktop This will start the AppleCORE program if necessary and immedi ately load the file If you select Open Log while another log is already open the open log will automatically be closed before the new log is opened Opening an existing file will configure the arrangement of items on the pal ettes as they existed when that file was last saved Furthermore the strip log for mat and the page setup format will be restored to the configuration that existed when the file was last saved Note that the icon graphic images are not saved in the data files Only the ref erence ASCII numbers for each variety of data are saved If the icon images have been changed in your copy of AppleCORE the recorded icon items will be dis played with the new images See the warning in the section Custom Files con cerning customising the icons and lithologies To Close a file choose Clase Log from the File menu If the file has had changes made to it including changes to the strip log format a dialog will appear reminding you to save the changes Save changes to the AppleCORE Log 7 If you have opened a file created with an old version of AppleCORE changes may have been made to the file as it was automatically updated and even if you have not manually made any changes to the file a dialog will appear asking if you wish to save changes If you choose to save the changes the file will be saved in th
155. shop v 2 5 and 3 0 and Silicon Graphics as well as Kodak photo CD s You could for example open another AppleCORE strip log that you had previously saved as a PICT file in order to refer to it while logging At present AppleCORE does not save or print digital images New Log 3N Open Log 0 Close Log W Save BS Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 29 Page Setup Selecting Page Setup produces a dialog box that is specific to the print er you have chosen To choose a printer select Chooser under the menu The dialog box allows you to set up LaserWriter 8 Page Setup Page Attributes a ee ee eee Format for HP LaserJet 5P x Paper US Letter x Orientation TE Scale 108 the page specifications Shown here is the standard dialog box for the Apple LaserWriter In north Amer ica U S Letter size in a vertical ori entation is the default option You can reduce the image up to 25 of the original size or enlarge the im age up to 400 of the original size on the LaserWriter Don t forget that if you choose to reduce or enlarge the image the scale you selected for your drafted strip log will be similarly effected When reducing or enlarging on the Apple LaserWriter the best results will usually be obtained at
156. ssette Y specify the number of copies desired First page from T x and you may choose to print only a particular range of pages The preset options print one copy of the entire strip log None of the print dialog options are saved with the file To print in colour you must first draft the log in colour To do this select col our printing from the COLOR Options dialog in the Setup Format item of the Drafting menu and redraft the strip log Do this even if using a black and white monitor When you choose Print from the File menu also be sure to choose colour printing if there is a button to do so in the print dialog window The LaserWriter driver converts the Macintosh graphic image to a set of Post Script instructions before sending it to the printer These PostScript instructions can be intercepted and sent to a disk file rather than to the printer You can do this by selecting the PostScript File button or setting the Destination in the Laser Writer print dialog The PostScript file can be valuable as a link to print on many other printers and plotters that are not Macintosh compatible There are commer cially available utility programs e g Freedom of Press that will convert the Post Script instructions to print on large format printers If you encounter problem messages while printing such as the system not being able to find the printer be sure the printer you want to use is the cur
157. ssseeeeissiissiesreertesrisstessresreesresrisressresreereess 116 Secondary Alteration Dialog s ssessesessessssessesessssisessssesessesssseesesesses 117 Alteration Products Dialog s ss ssesesssssssessssessesessssissessssenessessssesesesses 118 Voids desc ripton Dialogissa tariaren 119 Using the Key to Determine Rock Name sssssssssssisssisesssesrirssressrr 120 Using the Key to Determine Rock Name sssssssssssisssisesresesrsrrrssrree 120 Recording Hard Rock Thin Section s sssssssssssisssrisreserrssrrrssressrrsrereren 123 INTRODUCTION AppleCORE is a Macintosh program designed to be used in the lab while ex amining subsurface core It can also be configured for logging of outcrop data or most other kinds of lithologic data The program allows the direct collection of de scriptive geological data in a fast standardised manner and translates the data into a finished strip log that is suitable for publication in reports or academic jour nals The data can also be exported in a simple format to be read by other applica tions such as spreadsheets or for transfer to a proprietary database The raw data are saved to and retrieved from a floppy disk or hard drive and may be redrafted and displayed at any time using different display options The geologist or technician is therefore relieved of the need to record notes or rough strip logs that require tedious and time consuming final drafting into a finished display log The finis
158. t 3 menu To create a new entry in the menu type the caption in the Edit Box New Sample Type Then enter a three character abbreviation in the Label box The Label is the text that is actually plotted as the sample type on the strip log Click on the Insert New Type box and hold the mouse button to display the cur rent pop up menu The cursor will change to L while the menu is open Releas ing the mouse button with the cursor over an entry in the menu will insert the item following that entry as the cursor indicates To insert the item before a menu en try hold down the Option key before bringing up the pop up menu In this case the cursor will change to 4 indicating that the item will be inserted before the selected menu entry If you release the mouse button outside the menu nothing will be changed Alternatively you could also choose to load the Edit Box with an item that al ready exists in the menu if you wish to modify the item To do this choose an item from the menu by clicking on Copy to Edit Box then make your changes in Special Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Icon Master List gt Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Types Colourize Selected Show Facies Colours Install Custom File Save As Custom File Create Photo File Create Sample File Create Remarks Fil v AutoSave AutoSave Preferen 48 the Edit Box You may now replace the o
159. t BA depending on whether descriptive data has been collected for the selected mineral Mineral Selection Dialo When you click Add Mineral ina Mineral Component List the Mineral Se lection Dialog window will immediately open There are several options for se lecting a mineral from the data base 1 You may type a mineral name in the edit box However if the mineral name is not in the data base list it will be rejected In that case AppleCORE may suggest an alternate mineral e g Cinopyroxene instead of Augite Mineral proportion edit box Phenocryst Mi Proportion Gite Je fe Select from Alphabetical List Mineral name Mineral Name edit box Enter mineral name pr select from one of the lists r Select by Host Rock Actinolite Actinolite Amphibole Albite Alkali Feldspar Amphibole Analcite Analcime Secondary Minerals Anatase Andalusite Anglesite Anhydrite Sulfides Oxides Others Anorthite Anthophyllite Mineral popup menus Igneous Minerals by rock type x Full mineral scrolling list Habit 2 Inclusion Habit Context dependent additional mineral information 113 2 You may select the mineral from one of the pop up menus organised by rock type The menu items may have submenus nested several deep 3 You may simply select the mineral from the scrolling list The list
160. tact cota chiapiatastaness 59 Eost COTE Aa aia os ais aden a ad as a a aa aSa aa aaah tele 60 BOX SPa CE erie r EEEE EAA LEE E aiid pahuetr R 60 Recording Lithology with the Ternary Diagram _ uu 61 Erasing Lithologies as assists tenia tang lt he cinta ka raat teuestaeedscnalentuemuiealsews 62 Facies COMEACES rieien anii ai e aaa 63 Ter NAY E NA RA EE A T E E A 63 Logging with Graphic Icons so ceatassssandase cheatuecitacaghs wiatiudtncsautenhiatna 65 The Ichnofossil Palette jouccusstevidiaabdeonacceniinion naichadeibents 66 Grain Size Text re ounan a E E A 68 Porosity and Hydrocarbon Indicators s ss ssssessesessessssesessessssessesssses 69 POTOSIY sine aiii nariais a ienie aa iaaa aE Siia aia 69 Hydrocarbon Indicators sirsiitsieiiasiirieeisis i Tiiissresiasissiiiiiinaria 69 Sorting ROUnNdNESS parscccrsiadestarasvelersaecctataratteataadergiatdsshsarindteanealsttuctts 71 ROCK Colotes oieri raien nann sable etaaly lessaiennisaanntietongebinedans 72 HardRock StrUCTUTES cinien naita aias ea a 73 Post depositional Features ssssessesessssessessssesessessesinsesssnsseesessesesseses 75 Diagenesis and Fractures ss ssssessssessesissessssesessessssensesesnesessessese 75 Lithification stisi ian eerta INN r EE Sener fs fms VOT Arner 75 C te Disturbance esmsiimiseiigo maiin heddsaniea lads iai iiaiai 75 Oriented COTE abs cingetashunasidinis tale raaddantesiabat ables Misaanenetariedbestaadvys 76 Facies and Depositional Environm
161. the Master List in Fossils Diagenesis Fractures stantly by double clicking in any icon position on a palette This is also the only method by which you can Pore Types Hydrocarbon Indica Core Disturbance change the icon appearing in that position on the pal ette The Master List appears in a window that has a scrolling list of icon items Each line displays three fields the icon s title caption its unique ASCII code number and a sort code The icon itself CAPTION PHYSICAL STRUCTURES ASCI nud crack appears in the icon preview win clay drape geopetal structure imbricat ion clast imbrication fossil imbrication l ineat ion ETN the scroll bar at the right side of sole mark flute cast groove cast dow at the lower left when an item is selected by clicking on it Use the window to scroll through the entire list Blank lines are empty Edit Selection Put in Paletfe items and can be used to create your own icon items Icon preview window Any 6 character text can be used for the sort code or leave it blank Some users use this field for their in house data base code for cross reference If you entered the Master List by double clicking on an icon palette item from the logging win dow you can replace the original item by the one currently selected in the Master Options Edit Selected Lithol Edit Sample Types Edit Oriented Ty
162. the entire length releasing the button beyond the other end You may overprint an existing lithology interval with a different lithology at any time If a gap gt 4 pixels thick is left unfilled in the column schematic a similar blank gap will appear on the strip log A very short gap may appear as a single or double line when reduced in scale on the strip log Double clicking in a interval can speed up your data collection If you dou ble click in any interval or empty column schematic the selected lithology will fill the interval and will replace any lithology that had already been recorded for that interval Once you have recorded the lithology intervals you can also double click all other information into these intervals A good strategy for logging in general is to record all your facies intervals using the lithology items and then double click all other information into these intervals Double clicking is fast and has the add ed benefit of keeping your various data boundaries consistent with the facies bound aries If you are logging Hard Rock intervals you can also record a very detailed lith ology description After recording the interval a Hard Rock Description Dialog window will open and fill the screen This window is the entry to an hierarchy of data windows allowing you to record detailed descriptive information about the lithology A complete overview of the Hard Rock data collection functions is pro vide
163. the strip log that can be drafted The length is restricted to 32 768 screen dots At a typical 72 screen dots per inch the result is that strip logs can only be about 38 feet or 11 5 meters long in printed length If you hit this limit you will receive a message and drafting will be aborted The only solution to this limit is to plot at a smaller scale or make several partial inter val plots If you are just over the limit removing the Legend and Header items may reduce the length just enough to fit You may also have trouble printing logs on which there are extremely long lithology intervals without break This happens on some old PostScript printers that have limited memory or when using older PostScript e g LaserWriter print er drivers A lithology interval is actually a polygon object with many sides If it is too complex because it has too many sides the memory capacity of the printer or the printing software can be exceeded This can happen especially for interbed ded intervals which have a very complex profile If you receive a PostScript Er ror message or the plot simply doesn t appear out of the printer this is your most Open Format Setup Format Draft the Log Export as Pict File Save Format 101 likely problem The only solutions to this problem are to plot at a smaller scale or to break the interval in two or more by putting in a gradational boundary which doesn t show up o
164. this is clicked on elevations are incremented by a constant thickness as described in the section The Log Header Window When transcribing old written core descriptions into an AppleCORE file some users prefer entering the data in the generic Outcrop mode especially if core and box information has not been recorded in the notes In this case each interval schematic can represent a recorded facies interval with appropriate top and base depths If an existing file is opened its configuration Core or Outcrop is the configu ration that was chosen when the file was first created New Log 38 Open Log 0 Close Log W Save BS Save as Import ASCII file Export as ASCII file Import External H Y Data Import Digital Image Page Setup Print 22 Opening and Closing an Existing File To open an existing file select Open Log A dialog window will appear which allows the user to browse through the hierarchy of files on any hard disk or re movable disk mounted on the system Only AppleCORE files will be displayed Open the desired file by clicking twice on it or by clicking once to select it and then choosing the Open button While the file is read into memory the watch cursor is displayed The Log Header window will then be displayed with all previously recorded header information for this file You can also open a file by simply double clicking on its icon from the Macin to
165. ths with a datum of KB driller s depths or the Top of Core depth 0 0 at i i i iniitiad 3 i i a C the top of the core The KB datum simply uses the depths that are entered for the Box Depths as the core was logged Using the Top of Core as the datum in effect corrects all depths so that the top of the strip log is depth 0 0 If you have recorded Depth Markers see under the Logging Menu you can choose whether to apply the corrections to the strip log or not If you click on Apply Depth Marker Corrections then you also have the option to apply the depth corrections to any of the XY data curves Consider this carefully For example if one of the curves is the wireline gamma ray curve to which you have correlated the driller s depths then obviously you don t want to apply the depth corrections to that reference curve However if one of the curves is porosity measurements from core analysis then you probably do want to apply the depth corrections to that curve Litho Column Profile The lithology column can be drafted with a profile based on grain size data or carbonate textures This more or less resembles a weathering profile where shaly lithologies are recessive and sandy or carbonate lithologies are resistive Turn off Profile to plot the lithology as a simple column You can produce an accurate plot of interbedded lithologies by choosing Bedding Vertical This vertically divi
166. tic Lithology Carbonate Lithology Sedimentary Struct Lithologic Accessor A Ichnofassils 361 Fossils F Grain Size Texture 6 Porosity K Hydrocarbon Indica H Sorting Roundness T Rock Color eR Hard Rock Structur 4M Post depositional F b Facies Environment 8 Stratigraphy Remarks E Ele Label Ge Fhoto ea Sample 3s Depth Marker g Thin Section 67 Grain Size Texture The Grain Size Texture palette is selected from the Logging menu The window is toggled between Grain Size mainly for siliciclastics and Texture for carbonates by clicking the appropriate box at the bottom of the window Grain size is logged using the terminology of the standard Wentworth scale The record ed data is displayed in separate columns alongside the core schematic To record data select the desired item by clicking its radio button Move the cursor to the column schematic and then drag the cursor over the desired interval oa ee or double click ina facies interval neo aS oae The data are recorded schemati Sua S cally as a vertical histogram col osen o very Fine umn To erase an interval drag or 0 125 mm E EO gewer double click while holding down im Bie the COMMAND key 3 wa Granules samm a For grain size data you have Ei Grain si
167. u have created Simply include a copy of your Custom File with the log file and he can configure his AppleCORE temporarily with your Custom File to display the log as you recorded it NOTE that the ASCII code is the constant that links the pattern to the recorded data When you record information graphically by dragging a pattern over an in terval only the ASCII code is actually recorded AppleCORE links the code to whatever the pattern represents in your copy of the program For this reason you should not alter the MEANING of a pattern without due consideration for the ef fects on all other logs that you have recorded In particular it is not a good idea to change the meanings of the default set of lithologies that are installed when AppleCORE is first opened These items are the most common items used to log sedimentary rocks and have been given certain default properties that are used for producing the profile of the lithologic column on the strip log You are free to change the patterns and colours of these items but don t for example change Shale ASCII code 1292 to Sandstone because that ASCII code has been given a default recessive profile on the strip log Furthermore for all previous logs on which shale has been recorded as ASCII code 1292 those intervals will now show up as sandstone because you have changed the meaning of that code There are many empty lithology positions in the palettes and you should not have t
168. umns The Stratigraphy menu window is similar to the Facies Environment Window and operates in a similar manner except that colorization of intervals on the strip log is not available Also the cap tions Period Age Formation and Group may be changed to repre Scrolling list Scroll bar top _125gom i Campania Santonian E Coniacian al Turonian List editing Cenomanian i butions gt erete Current text a tcampania Period Text editing box Age Group i g Current Item Formation Category Captions j Edit Captions eo sent anything the user may wish As with the Facies Environment window com monly used terms can be stored in a scrolling lists for repeated use The current text is whatever is in the text editing box When you log an in terval it is the current text that is recorded There are two ways to assign text to be the current text First you can type anything you wish in the text editing box Al ternatively you may choose an item from the scrolling list by clicking on it This will place the item from the scrolling list into the text edit box There are four sep arate scrolling lists one for each of Period Age Formation and Group The list will change when you select one of these items by clicking on its radio button To add new items to the list type your text in the text editing box Then use the List editi
169. unneeded data col umns Clay is a data input column that appears on the lithology palette win dows Detailed clay may not normally be required when logging core except in special cases such as diagenetic studies Toggling the Display Clay Option on and off allows this column to appear only when needed The switch Show Grain Size on Icon Menus will display the grain size histogram column in all the symbol icon palette windows Physical Structures Lithologic Accessories Fossils Diagenesis and Fractures but not Ichnofossils This allows more accurate placement of data where facies divisions are dominantly based on grain size The grain size display on these palettes is normally switched off to prevent window clutter You cannot enter grain size data when it is displayed in the icon palette windows Grain size data can only be recorded in the grain size palette Choose Grain Size from the Logging menu 1540 00ft uphole 1542 50 ft downhole GRAIN SIZE Grain Size and Texture can Clay mame ON be displayed together on the E ery Fine a T OFine upper data input window If the Tex ae aren Medium lower im e o arse ture palette is the active palette _ Very Coarse amm Granules i the grain size data is overlaid Hae _ Pebbles i ee on the histogram as a diagonal EJ Grain Size Texture cE i U
170. uns madam aai 25 Exportme an ASCH Filen crsiietctinceimne E RER 27 knpor ng X Y data Say cies asin Sait ahaa adios rence pai a a i Sed 28 Importing Digital Images is cist dieatotoinnaisentahniarendatenicrnaada 29 Page Setup sensacian a a a a an Cia aa Ea Amand 30 Printing oeeie e EE E EAK E E A AiE 33 Quitting the Program ssssssssssessssissstrssessrsesstesnresstrssrrnesrreseresnresstresss 34 The Edit Menu caiestoe wedtiteaatentoalacbesdtts Aehctales sgh O E AE R 35 Inserting and Deleting Intervals ssssessesesssessessssesessessssessesessesens 36 The Special Menu mentiinnenenennsnineniea a a iE 37 ODE MINS 5 esas valine Sathana catia E Sn oh pd Seika cas EE E E 37 Editing Lithologies ossricisinaiieniinneiniun niinniin 41 Editing ICONS aa aa A aaa aSa rey Cer aa EEA asa 44 Pore Types Hydrocarbon Indicators Core Disturbance 45 CAUNO sas de Sean sos dds ESE TAEAE aaa Sian isa os Seabee he 47 Editing the Sample Types aajtaiehcteieialantnctnds deo haactcndaamantaedn 48 Facies COlGUtS i iresi enasna ann Satsang ean AS EE EA ein 50 Cristom Files sanoa esia E EE eE E E R R 51 Photo Sample and Remarks Files siecsccsissessssvassssesasscnossysdvonssesssseset 54 PUTO SAVE arrana E E R E E EEA 55 Au toSave Preferences morras iin naden aaneen iaa E ASAE Ss 57 The Logging Men osenricinanccniiiaiienininaiia nia 58 Clastic and Carbonate Lithology Menu Items ou cece 58 Interbedded Lithology xacossvcsichsseisssbiestaleisenshenasde
171. val by dragging over the de sired interval or doubling clicking in a lithology interval In an in terval the icon is placed between two arrowheads The line joining gt Common Moderate gt Rare the arrowheads indicates the relative abundance of the item as shown If you drag over an interval to record the data the icon is centered between the arrowheads However if you double click in an inter val the icon is plotted where the cursor was clicked and not necessarily in the mid dle of the interval between the arrow heads This allows you to place the icons to avoid overlap To erase an icon click on it while holding down the COMMAND key 4 Once a symbol is placed in the schematic you can also move it by dragging it to a new position while holding down the SHIFT key If the symbol lies within an arrow head interval you can only drag the symbol within the limits of the arrowheads Some users may wish to record whether the selected item is the predominant major item in a facies interval Check the major button to flag an item as predominant one before logging it The major button lies immediately above the abundance pop up menu If the button is not present you must first activate it in the Options dialog under the Special menu By default this button is not activated since its use is somewhat redundant when relative abundance is recorded A major item show
172. will sound and you will be prevent ed from entering any more text Normally you will not want to use this option However it can be useful if for instance you use AppleCORE to load an external data base that has a built in limit for remarks In such cases use of this option will prevent text lines exceeding the limit when you export the data as an ASCII file Cursor Depth Display can be toggled on or off by clicking in its box This display continuously updates the depth of the cursor over the core schematic as you enter data The depths can be displayed in feet or meters regardless of how CORE 1 BOH 1 460 76 meters the depths were originally record ed For instance in this figure the top 1510 00 ft base 1512 50 ft Cursor Depth Display depths have been recorded in feet but the Cursor Depth Display has been switched to display the depths converted to meters This switch can be toggled between feet and meters at any time Note that feet are dis played as feet and decimals not feet and inches The cursor depth display is nor mally shown with 2 decimals but this can be changed to either 1 or 3 The use of the three decimals option is helpful if the schematic represents an interval that is relatively thin In such cases with only 1 or 2 decimals displayed the cursor may have to move over several screen pixels before incrementing a decimal unit Us ing 3 decimals will allow more accurate placement of facies bounda
173. x i z 2 ao prd 9 c ra gt x LITHOFACIES lighting key units or by emphasizing important vertical successions and associations Depend ing on the scale of the strip log some facies in tervals may be too thin to allow plotting of the text Colour is then useful for identifying the facies and interpretations assigned to these Estuarine System units Estuary Channel Bring up the Facies Environment data input palette by selecting it from the Logging ES Lowstand Exposure menu Colours can be assigned to any of the Facies Facies Association Depositional Envi ronment and Depositional Complex items that appear on the scrolling lists in the Facies Environment window To assign colours first be sure that Facies Colours is switched on Do this by selecting Show Facies Colours from the Special menu When facies colours is switched on a check mark will appear next to the item in the menu Then the assigned colours if any will appear to the right of any item in the Facies Envi Facies 2 ronment scrolling list Select any item from any of the lists by clicking on it Then to assign or change its col our select Colorize Facies Item from the Special menu This will bring up the standard Macintosh colour chooser window in which you can select a col our See the section Editing Lithologies for an example of the colour chooser dialog A colour monitor is desirable for pe
174. you are using AppleCORE This backup takes place at regular intervals when changes are made to your data The backup interval can be set as desired The backup file is created by AppleCORE when a file is opened and is invisi ble to the user It is automatically deleted when AppleCORE quits normally or when you close your data file However if the system crashes or if you experience an unexpected power shutdown while AppleCORE is running the backup file remains on disk When you subsequently restart your computer the System will have placed the backup file in the trash When you open the trash by double clicking on its icon it will contain a folder called Rescued Items In that folder will be the Ap pleCORE file as it existed the last time it was backed up by AutoSave The title of the file is Recovered including the time and date of the last backup Recover this file by dragging it from the trash and rename it as desired Obviously you don t want to empty the trash before you do this An application may crash by quitting unexpectedly but otherwise still leave the system running If this hap pens while running AppleCORE you must recover the file by restarting the Mac Choose Restart from the Special menu of the system menu bar After the re start check the trash for your file For the AutoSave function to operate it must remain turned on For safety AutoSave is always on when you open AppleCORE But it can be tur
175. ze aure ye BASE re the option of designating an upper or lower range for all of the grain size classes except clay Note that both of these buttons can be turned off if you do not need the extra degree of accu racy If the lower range is chosen only half of an interval is shaded on the sche matic You must designate upper or lower ranges before logging the interval If you turn on the upper or lower buttons for a particular size class your choice sticks with that class item until changed Grain Size and Texture can be displayed together on the data input window If the texture palette is the active palette the grain size data is overlaid on the his togram as a diagonal line pattern If Grain Size is the active palette then the Tex ture data is displayed in the line pattern Turn this option on or off from the Options dialog under the Special menu The grain size and carbonate texture are used to construct the lithologic pro file on the drafted strip log If no grain size or texture data is recorded for an inter val the profile reverts to a default width These defaults are built in for the standard lithologies on palette 1 i e the lithology palettes installed when AppleCORE is delivered It is advisable therefore not to change the meaning of these lithology items Create new lithologies only in the blank untitled palette entries Logging Clastic Lithology 361 Car

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